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Objectified Scotsmen and Hunky Gladiators, or on the Sexualisation of the Modern Man
Read more: Objectified Scotsmen and Hunky Gladiators, or on the Sexualisation of the Modern ManOne of the things that I like to show friends is the Tumblr page Wtf Bad Romance Covers which is filled with tacky and camp covers of Candlelight Novels. Every Thursday is “Objectified Scotsmen Thursday” and on this wonderful day the blog delights its followers with cheap covers with entertainingly awkwardly posing “Scottish” hunks,…
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Identity and Societal Issues in Zootopia: Disney Doing It Right
Read more: Identity and Societal Issues in Zootopia: Disney Doing It RightI like the direction Disney is heading into lately. While caucasian princesses and male superheroes singing jolly songs and going on quirky adventures are as popular as ever, Disney’s Studios show that they are also capable of addressing more serious issues – in a non-threatening, more cuddly way. An example of this is the…
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Behind the Classic 3: Marital Intimacy and Women’s Rights in Jude the Obscure
Read more: Behind the Classic 3: Marital Intimacy and Women’s Rights in Jude the ObscureThis instalment of the Behind the Classic series looks at the women’s rights movement of the nineteenth century that forms the political backdrop of Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure. More specifically, it will discuss the issue of sex – or, to speak in more appropriate, Victorian terms – “conjugal rights” and a woman’s right to…
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Pulp Fiction: I Read Crap and I Struggle with Literature. Shoot Me.
Read more: Pulp Fiction: I Read Crap and I Struggle with Literature. Shoot Me.Forgive me, Dante, for I am a sinner. I confess. Do not judge me too harshly, oh Joyce, Tolstoy, Waugh, Saramago, and other greats that collect my dust instead of my readership. I mean well. I feel genuine pleasure and admiration when I muster the will and energy to read your famous words, but that…
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Love, Identity and Shakespeare: Solomon vs. the Foggers and Facilitators
Read more: Love, Identity and Shakespeare: Solomon vs. the Foggers and FacilitatorsWe consider several different scenarios: in bed together, you eat chocolate, you feel happy and guilty, you eat more chocolate there is a deadline for a Valentine’s Day piece, but the market for articles about the fetishization of love is ironically oversaturated, and you panic to find another perspective
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