Apostate recently wrote this: Ever since I found out about it, I have found penetrative sex inherently violent and I think its power dynamic is skewed in the male’s (or top’s) favor (he is the aggressor, she the recipient – some level of passivity is built into her role – sex can be performed onContinue reading “I dick, therefore I am”
Category Archives: Kultur
Tough love my lily-white Slavic bum!
“Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo?” Rubashov over at Darkness at Noon recently invited La Russophobe for a bit of a chat. I wouldn’t invite La Russophobe to a piss-swilling contest (it’s nothing personal – I agree with a lot of the things thatContinue reading “Tough love my lily-white Slavic bum!”
How “300” Spartans Drop-Kicked Me Down the Rabbit Hole
Modern-day storytellers are circumscribed by reductivism. Adopt a classical method – and you’re out of touch, a coward channeling a bunch of unfashionable dead white guys. Adopt a classical method and innovative technology – you are not merely out of touch, you are also a corporate whore. This is the problem with much of theContinue reading “How “300” Spartans Drop-Kicked Me Down the Rabbit Hole”
“Why do you like to objectify yourself?”
“Because it involves straying outside myself.” (Sounds about as subtle as “When you cheated girl, My heart bleeded girl” by Mr. Timberlake – but it’s true)
“300” – Reaction & Review.
“300” is popular because it combines a classic narrative and a revolutionary technique. The story – related by an Ancient Greek for Ancient Greeks, mind you – is an invocation of a true myth: bloody, biased, sexual, exaggerated, and morally ambiguous. This myth is channeled by Miller and Snyder into lovingly constructed bursts of imagesContinue reading ““300” – Reaction & Review.”
Natalia A. 