thread: 2006-04-10 : I roleplay like a little sexually-irrelevent nerd
On 2006-04-10, Brand Robins wrote:
I love this post.
I especially love the fact that it is problematic, sympathetic, empathetic, and vulnerable all at once.
This makes Chris go "He also made Kill Puppies..."
This makes BR go "As a note on the "problematic" part...."
Isn't it interesting that when we set up the binary of man -- man|boy, man|beast, man|coward -- that the historical value judgement has always been in favor of the man side? So when we say man|woman ....
This makes Chris go "Though..."
I think if we're putting it in context, the less problematic issue is that Vincent is talking about boy to man in the sense of adulthood, identity, and self confidence. In a better world, we'd also attribute the same thinking to girl/woman, and, though many stories deal with this kind of "coming of age" ideas, rarely do they deal with full empowerment of women, or societal change.
This makes BR go "True that."
Though, for the record, some of the women I play with do that. It just doesn't get a lot of support from anything other than their own skill at telling that story.
