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Originally Posted by Karrot
So when this sort of clap trap comes along I generally feel its from someone who feels they've found some moral high ground from which to shout, seeking their 5 minutes of fame. They seem to think that nameless masses think as they do, without realising that the masses feel the same about them as they do about us. It's 5 minutes entertainment forgotten as soon as they scroll down.
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With this one its a thesis so the person is to my mind either doing a Masters or a doctorate so unlike the tabloid articles this one will stick around and be referenced by others.
I think that the author had much less bias than some scholarly articles that I have read but at the same time they seemed to come to the work with a conclusion looking for data to support their conclusion rather than to form it.
They also seem to largely ignore the elephant in the room which is an ingrained cultural belief that everything, even the inanimate is capable of possessing a soul and by extension is alive. That underlying belief feeds into Eastern literature and should have been the focus of this study but it seems that feminism and gender studies gets in the way of logic... When I were a lad Gender studies was eyeing up the talent on a Friday night. Now it seems to be about women telling men what we are thinking and why whilst not actually having any clue. But, if you can show that you put a lot of effort into getting the evidence to support the conclusions that you already had then the conclusion must be correct.
Lol on Tolkein. I had read the hobbit and loved it so to kill two birds with one stone for my A level English I did a study of how Norse and Germanic mythology influenced the Lord of the Rings... Seemed such a bright idea expecing Lotr to be as easy a read as the Hobbit
There were times when it felt as though he spent whole tracts of the book describing a blade of grass growing... And then something mportant would happen and you almost had to go back and read it as your mind had gone to sleep. A shorter, more exciting version of Lotr is The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brookes. Pretty much the same story but shorter... Much, much shorter.
Sorry, getting off topic there from gender studies and onto something a little more meaningful.
Back to the paper. I pondered it after skim reading it yesterday and the underlying message seems to relate to the desire to impose absolute control... Which just made me think... You really don't know our girls!