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10 years ago @ The Toast - Erotica Written By An ... · 0 replies · +10 points

This is truly a red-letter day. First I found out that I passed my comprehensive exams, and now a new installment of my very favoritest Toast feature!

10 years ago @ The Toast - An Interview With @AfA... · 0 replies · +53 points

That's literally saying "but at least they were allowed to be alive when they were forced to work".

Nailed it.

10 years ago @ The Toast - Sir Gawain And The Gre... · 0 replies · +15 points

There is another Gawain tale, Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle, in which the carle explicitly orders Gawain to sleep with his wife "in my sight." Gawain is gung-ho and they get pretty far, until the carle says, literally, "Whoa, there. / That game I thee forbid" (lines 467-8). He tells Gawain to have sex with his daughter instead.

So Gawain is apparently the most sought-after unicorn in Arthurian England. Man, Shakespeare is a PRUDE. I am totally switching my time frame to medievalist.
http://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/hahn-sir-ga...

10 years ago @ The Toast - Things Women In Litera... · 0 replies · +11 points

I misread "pony exhaustion" as "porn exhaustion." So apparently, that's my way out of the world.

10 years ago @ The Toast - A List Of Fictional Me... · 0 replies · +14 points

The tenth doctor:
1) Of course
2) How do you see into my head?
3) I'll be in my bunk...forever.

10 years ago @ The Toast - The Ubiquitous Roving ... · 0 replies · +10 points

Thank you to Mrs_Peel and missemish for providing the link to Fashion It So. I'll be polite and say this piece was "inspired" by it.

11 years ago @ The Toast - The Unified Theory of ... · 0 replies · +42 points

This is wonderful. I admit to never having really gotten the motivation for Ophelia's mental instability until recently. The best "production" of Hamlet I ever saw was a student-directed single scene, the nunnery scene, for directing class. Claudius and Polonius had hidden themselves "above," (on the balcony) for their eavesdropping. Hamlet was very physical with Ophelia, pinning her to the stage and nearly raping her. At the height of that commotion, Polonius steps out from behind the balcony curtain to look down at Hamlet and Ophelia. Hamlet's back is to him, but Ophelia, pinned down and struggling, sees her father. Their eyes lock for a long moment as she pleads silently for help, and Polonius...steps back behind the curtain. That is the moment she loses her stability, and it's crystal clear why. [Edit: And for me, it completely rewrites her mad speech because, for her, THIS is the moment that Polonius dies. He dies as her guardian and protector, and his actual death gets mixed up in her mind with this moment.]

11 years ago @ The Toast - Ayn Rand's Buffy T... · 0 replies · +5 points

I really want to upvote this, but at the moment the upvote tally is at 69 and I don't want to change it. Still, thumbs up!

11 years ago @ The Toast - Every Type Of Email Co... · 1 reply · +35 points

She was courageous for being able to tell you about it. It's such a goddamn epidemic on campuses. I hope you could respond with compassion, compassion, compassion, plus anger and tons of support service recommendations.

In my first semester as a TA (although that's incidental--I'm not making it a contest), I was talking about media awareness and showing part of Jean Kilbourne's "Killing Us Softly" series on images of women in the media. The first-year women were paying close attention, the first-year guys quietly making approving noises at the sexed-up images and/or scoffing under their breath that this could be an "issue." At the end of the clip, one girl said, "This is why I'm bulimic." Stunned silence.

I didn't say anything for about a minute. I just wanted everyone to sit with that comment for a bit. Then I told her she was brave, and thanked her. Everyone got it--that class KILLED media awareness, and I'm pretty sure it had nothing to do with me.

For all our bitching, it's amazing and heartbreaking what can happen in a classroom.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Anne Boleyn: Your Hero... · 0 replies · +7 points

"whenever he took a shit" Which wasn't really often enough for good health, I hear. And although it can't have been pleasant when it did happen, Groom of the Stool was a coveted position because it meant you got to talk to him for...well, let's say several minutes, minimum...all alone.

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