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Re: also...
Posted By: General Vagueness <General.Vagueness@gmail.com>	Date: 11/5/11 7:19 p.m.
In Response To: Re: also... (General Battuta) : Intentionally or not -- it's an attempt to invoke the (male, by default assumption's) : fear of rape jeopardy towards their female companion. I don't think you can have an attempt without intent. An accidental attempt isn't an attempt, it's just an action. If that was the intention they failed miserably. : That said, I don't think you can make a strong scatological argument about : the flood. Nothing about them is inherently, uh, poopy? They forcibly : create life by violating the bodies of other life; like Giger's alien, : they're all about the rape. Besides: would making an argument that the : level 'Cortana' involves a penis' journey up an anus really help your : case? :P I think that was the point, you could read it that way if you wanted to, and no one is because no one wants to. : So, for example, when Tartarus makes a rape threat towards Miranda, we : understand that it is a rape threat using not logic from the 2-whateverth : century setting of Halo, but from our own world, where we would expect a : rape threat in that same situation. And we see - and are perhaps : uncomfortable with - the way that world has shaped the narrative. Does it : make sense for Tartarus to use a rape threat against Miranda? Was it used : for more than a gratuitous sense of menace? It wasn't though, it was just a generic threat. : We could then have a fairly reasonable discussion of those questions, without : having to go off yelling about how the very idea is sexist towards men. The very idea isn't. The way it's focused on females 99% of the time might be. The way that, as noted above, it takes on this different framing and interpretation when the subject of something is female might very well be, maybe more than likely is. : I think our world would be very much impoverished if we weren't able to : analyze text and look at what it's saying. Please don't take that analysis : as some kind of direct attack on the writers. Sometimes they don't even : realize what they're saying. There are two ways to say something and not know what you're saying: 1. say things in a language you don't know 2. be insane neither apply here.

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Feminist analysis of Halo 2	ElzarTheBam	11/4/11 6:28 a.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	Overdoziz	11/4/11 6:41 a.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	davidfuchs	11/4/11 7:21 a.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	General Battuta	11/4/11 9:03 a.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	General Vagueness	11/4/11 9:54 a.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	General Battuta	11/4/11 10:26 a.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	Quirel	11/4/11 12:12 p.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	General Vagueness	11/4/11 2:35 p.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	General Battuta	11/4/11 3:21 p.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	=sw=warlord	11/4/11 8:53 p.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	General Battuta	11/4/11 8:56 p.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	Overdoziz	11/5/11 6:39 p.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	SonofMacPhisto	11/5/11 7:10 p.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	General Vagueness	11/5/11 7:47 p.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	Overdoziz	11/5/11 8:52 p.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	Dragonclaws	11/7/11 9:10 p.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	General Battuta	11/7/11 9:48 p.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	Dragonclaws	11/8/11 12:24 a.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	SonofMacPhisto	11/8/11 10:14 a.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	Dragonclaws	11/8/11 4:29 p.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	General Vagueness	11/4/11 9:49 a.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	Louis Wu	11/4/11 10:50 a.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	General Battuta	11/4/11 10:53 a.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	Louis Wu	11/4/11 11:30 a.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	Overdoziz	11/4/11 12:11 p.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	General Battuta	11/4/11 12:43 p.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	scarab	11/4/11 1:08 p.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	Beckx	11/4/11 1:12 p.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	Overdoziz	11/4/11 1:19 p.m.
Also:	Overdoziz	11/4/11 12:14 p.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	General Battuta	11/4/11 12:40 p.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	General Vagueness	11/4/11 11:47 a.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	Dragonclaws	11/7/11 9:40 p.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	BanditORR	11/4/11 10:00 a.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	Mid7night	11/4/11 12:18 p.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	Ibeechu	11/4/11 4:28 p.m.
ell oh ell i broke the forum *NM*	Ibeechu	11/4/11 4:30 p.m.
That's what you get, insulting Freud! *NM*	SonofMacPhisto	11/4/11 4:43 p.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	General Battuta	11/4/11 5:14 p.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	Jillybean	11/4/11 4:49 p.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	Miguel Chavez	11/4/11 4:52 p.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	Dragonclaws	11/8/11 5:40 p.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	General Vagueness	11/8/11 6:35 p.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	Dragonclaws	11/8/11 7:03 p.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	Leviathan	11/8/11 7:07 p.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	Quirel	11/8/11 11:49 p.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	Dragonclaws	11/9/11 12:34 a.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	Leisandir	11/8/11 10:39 p.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	Jillybean	11/9/11 1:35 p.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	Dragonclaws	11/9/11 1:51 p.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	Jillybean	11/9/11 2:03 p.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	Quirel	11/9/11 9:16 p.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	General Vagueness	11/13/11 6:25 p.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	Jillybean	11/4/11 5:42 p.m.
also...	Jillybean	11/4/11 6:00 p.m.
Re: also...	General Vagueness	11/4/11 7:26 p.m.
Re: also...	Jillybean	11/4/11 7:37 p.m.
Re: also...	Ibeechu	11/4/11 7:53 p.m.
Re: also...	Jillybean	11/4/11 8:05 p.m.
Re: also...	General Battuta	11/4/11 8:22 p.m.
Re: also...	Ibeechu	11/4/11 10:22 p.m.
Re: also...	General Battuta	11/5/11 9:55 a.m.
Re: also...	SonofMacPhisto	11/5/11 10:47 a.m.
HOLD THE PHONE	Jillybean	11/5/11 1:56 p.m.
Re: HOLD THE PHONE	Quirel	11/5/11 3:12 p.m.
Re: HOLD THE PHONE	Jillybean	11/5/11 3:27 p.m.
Re: HOLD THE PHONE	General Battuta	11/5/11 3:39 p.m.
Re: also...	BanditORR	11/5/11 6:27 p.m.
Re: also...	SonofMacPhisto	11/5/11 7:07 p.m.
Re: also...	BanditORR	11/5/11 9:22 p.m.
I don't want to get into this too much	Leisandir	11/6/11 8:26 a.m.
Re: I don't want to get into this too much	General Vagueness	11/6/11 8:44 a.m.
Re: I don't want to get into this too much	Leisandir	11/6/11 6:30 p.m.
Re: I don't want to get into this too much	General Vagueness	11/7/11 9:03 a.m.
Re: I don't want to get into this too much	Jillybean	11/6/11 12:20 p.m.
Re: I don't want to get into this too much	Vandle Valsher	11/6/11 4:38 p.m.
I think I'll simply say...	DHalo	11/6/11 6:58 p.m.
Re: I think I'll simply say...	Leisandir	11/6/11 9:52 p.m.
My final words on the topic ... for the moment	Jillybean	11/7/11 12:31 p.m.
Also, ignore the fact I sound like Cody here *NM*	Jillybean	11/7/11 12:36 p.m.
Re: My final words on the topic ... for the moment	General Vagueness	11/7/11 1:12 p.m.
Re: My final words on the topic ... for the moment	Jillybean	11/7/11 1:50 p.m.
Re: My final words on the topic ... for the moment	General Vagueness	11/7/11 3:05 p.m.
Re: My final words on the topic ... for the moment	Quirel	11/7/11 7:50 p.m.
Tab explosion *NM*	Jillybean	11/8/11 11:36 a.m.
Re: also...	SonofMacPhisto	11/7/11 10:14 a.m.
Re: also...	General Battuta	11/7/11 6:51 p.m.
(this is for BanditOrr)	General Battuta	11/7/11 6:52 p.m.
Re: also...	General Vagueness	11/5/11 7:19 p.m.
Re: also...	Jillybean	11/5/11 2:04 p.m.
Re: also...	BanditORR	11/5/11 6:35 p.m.
Re: also...	General Vagueness	11/5/11 6:17 p.m.
Re: also...	Overdoziz	11/5/11 5:19 a.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	Overdoziz	11/4/11 7:04 p.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	Dragonclaws	11/7/11 2:15 p.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	Dragonclaws	11/7/11 2:24 p.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	The Loot	11/7/11 9:31 p.m.
Re: Feminist analysis of Halo 2	Quirel	11/7/11 10:53 p.m.