sexual control

Think of the "Sambo" routine in uncle tom

dehumanizing

symbolic

noteably not "themaster"

Assumes it's junk

kind and good

Gendered

lots of gray and metallic imagery

Such a gross trope

Important

u right

snaps

This seems extra important to the image

What does "authentic" even mean?

It's interesting to me that the distinction of them having "black faces" was so important. Like that's some less-than kind of mourning

Seems very christian-like

When she calls them liars, I wonder how true that is and how much it's just her not wanting to believe them. She constantly degrades them, calling them "barbarous creatures", so I think she wants them to be liars.

Question of autonomy and who deserves it

Ownership of women

INTERESTING

This was also a point made in Global Lit. It's unfair/unjust to only look at a culture's literature through their genocide or domination

disease

This "peacefulness leads to demise" has become a trope in stories

Almost all portrayals of this interaction in movies and childhood stories have the native citizens practically worshipping the new people

What does it mean to be "coherent"?

why the plants?

A heavy power to hold over an entire species. It 1) stops the population from increasing, 2) reflects the same power men enforce over women

Another interesting parallel between humans and animals, but this time they're not so far apart

While this would be debilitating, it's interesting that this is the worst thing that could happen. How much does the time period have to do with that? The advancement of technology making it extremely detrimental to not be able to move? Or the societal stigma of being a "cripple"? Which is worse?

appease god

any disease marked by inflammation and pain in the joints and muscles

"it is better to trust...which nature has given us" and not what is not intended for us.

Again, an interesting parallel being drawn between two kinds of relationships between a character and the world around them. It's also a portrayal of respect and a lack thereof.

This parallel is interesting because the humans sacrifice something else while the animal sacrifices itself

What does image have to do with the way we interact with and treat the world around us?

brings up the concern for identity

"technology" is much more than things like internet, cell phones, cars, etc. It can be something as "primitive" as the wheel.

concise way of summing up what we are focused on in our view of nature.

rose-colored glass

totality = chain of events, snowball effect, etc.

Is that really enough?

But what does "consuming" mean?

This seems poignant, especially after reading "A Small Place".

the emphasis of "teach" and "do" points out how we've minimized an entire culture to something we do for an hour when we have the time.

System of checks and balances

Does this mean that ideology is what constructs society and all of its rules?

like the practicality of machines

Because the thing we should be striving to obtain is equal status to that of the straight, white man.

Again, such a punch to the gut. I hate it.

yucky

INTERSECTIONALITY 👏 👏 👏

The concept of being complicit in one's own oppression is fascinating to me. I've seen it come up when studying pretty much any kind of socially-enforced oppression, and it's always so poignant to me.

This is so prominent right now, and every time I read something like this it helps me to makes sense of just how detrimental it is.

stop labeling women? Or stop labeling people? Isn't language really just labeling?

How? What does "crazy" even really mean?

THIS IS INTERESTING. Isn't masculinity supposedly what should be the goal, and femininity traditionally laughable? HM.

While I fully agree with all of the points of this passage, I wish the argument in support of these points had more logic and less "penises, amiright?". I would have liked to have seen the connections between the dots without the "it just is" mood.

I wonder if male authority and female authority can even be considered synonymous.

Yeah, that checks out.

Oof. One of those most powerful things about feminist critique for me is the silence.

This is an interesting title and concept for a presentation of these kind of issues. I think it's impactful because of how strict the societal norms are for women, and someone who might break those norms could easily be considered a "freakshow".

This concept is interesting to me in relation to the movie because of how the concept of "resting peacefully" (in death) kept coming up. They take care of the graves and honor their dead, and the portrayal of Irene as a kind of "guardian spirit" makes me wonder if part of why they take such care of their dead is for assurance in that they'll have that kind of protection. Maybe that's a cultural question more than an analytical question, but I think it's worth considering when we ask the larger question of how to define the relationship between tradition and death.

Honestly, that was a hugely uncanny moment for me; that Sole, someone who is clearly fearful of death and the dead, is so quick to accept her presumably dead mother, or perhaps the ghost of her, into her life. It even seems like it makes her a happier character than before her mother came back into the picture.

I think this brings up an interesting point because I hadn't really thought of the concept of the "double", as in Freud's essay, as something as kind of "concrete" as a ghost or superstition.