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In reply to the discussion: "What shall we do now?" (re. the UCSB shootings) [View all]Laelth
(32,017 posts)40. Smile. I hear you.
A graduate professor whom I deeply admire once uttered in class, "One gets tired of phalluses." We were analyzing the plethora of phallic symbols one can so readily find in Western civilization. She liked to hunt down and categorize what she called "split-tailed mermaids" (vaginal symbols, but she wouldn't say that being the very proper lady she was). I once bought a framed lithograph of one when I was in Alaska and gave it to her. I bet she has it on her wall today. There's a certain sense in which one can't talk at all in Western societies without talking about men, and I know you have male children. I suspect you think about them a lot, and I suspect you talk about them a lot too.
-Laelth
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You are trying to conflate war and the character's personal problems
muriel_volestrangler
May 2014
#34
If you taught rhetoric than I ask you to step back and look for a larger, overarching theme
KittyWampus
May 2014
#2
So the invention of bigger and better guns and war machines had nothing to do with it?
davidn3600
May 2014
#11
we have often talked about the backlash resulting from so much success of women over a small
seabeyond
May 2014
#15
We fight to amend the Second Amendment. The existence of guns prevents the very conversations
ancianita
May 2014
#45
that has nothing to do with love and desire. that has nothing to do with being fearful
seabeyond
May 2014
#56