in defence of lancelot and guinevere
Texts like The Quest of the Holy Grail gets on your nerves at times. why this extreme misogyny? why are women always portrayed as evil temptresses? why this incessant hankering after chastity and virginity? why is lancelot made to feel guilty because he loved a woman? and why is it guinevere's fault only? if lancelot hadn't copped elaine's cherry where would galahad, our model of chastity, come from? pray tell me?
and what did they think? these stupid monks? that we have nothing better to do than to lay traps for innocent knights? trying to distract them form their holy quests and giving them hard-ons at most inappropriate moments? stupid gits, this misogyny is all sex gone sour...believe me...just because they couldn't get it up anymore due to lack of practice. maybe their dicks shrivelled up and fell off, and so they took to this pleasant pastime of woman-bashing. the wife of bath hit the nail on the head methinks.
abstinence is not a virtue, honestly. if you don't want to do it, don't do it. don't pretend that you are doing the world a favour...its your choice, nobody is forcing you to be a virgin. its not even like vegetarianism, where you can at least claim that you are saving animals by not eating them, and thats a good thing to do. if you are not having sex who the fuck cares? god certainly doesn't. what kind of a religion portrays love as sinful?
Disclaimer: this is a feminist rant. please don't give me a thesis on the history of carnal love in vedic times or whatever....
and what did they think? these stupid monks? that we have nothing better to do than to lay traps for innocent knights? trying to distract them form their holy quests and giving them hard-ons at most inappropriate moments? stupid gits, this misogyny is all sex gone sour...believe me...just because they couldn't get it up anymore due to lack of practice. maybe their dicks shrivelled up and fell off, and so they took to this pleasant pastime of woman-bashing. the wife of bath hit the nail on the head methinks.
abstinence is not a virtue, honestly. if you don't want to do it, don't do it. don't pretend that you are doing the world a favour...its your choice, nobody is forcing you to be a virgin. its not even like vegetarianism, where you can at least claim that you are saving animals by not eating them, and thats a good thing to do. if you are not having sex who the fuck cares? god certainly doesn't. what kind of a religion portrays love as sinful?
Disclaimer: this is a feminist rant. please don't give me a thesis on the history of carnal love in vedic times or whatever....
posted by mojo at 11:58 PM
7 Comments:
i'm actually more fascinated by the portrayal of Christianity rather than the misogyny. lokgulo ayto presumptuous je byaparta khub mojar. porikkha hoye gele ei nie khub gobheer chintabhabna korbo. this certainly makes for a very interesting read.
@suchismita: no reply...........aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..
shobai ki serious ma goh!! ghenna... e jeebone, ei mod biheen jeebon ke dhikkar...
Sei je Amlan da bolechhilen na, Milton er kobitar feminist interpretation korte jawai hasyokor, karon feminism bepartai tokhon didn't exist? Maane, lokjon bhabtei parto na je eibhabe chinta kora jay? Maane, ami jani eta Milton noy, kintu eta just mone elo.
Rum n coke er songe vanilla icecream mishiye khabi?
eto porey ei shob hoy.
jao, rum khao.
i agree with you about the sex, vegetarianism et al.
@march hare: feminist interpretation chai na...ei abhorring of the female body-r kaaron chai, erom noy je khaali bolchhe meyeder ke payer choti kore raakhbo, kintu meye der ke dekhlei ei paranoia about sex keno?ek haatey to taali baaje na...
ekhono oboshyo ami legoff pore puro byaparta ektu ektu bujhte parchhi...
ar rum and coke e ar ki meshabi? bol? lebu, chini, gorom moshla?icecream? chocolate? baba-r duto bichi?
@insiya: tum to bangla seekh giya re...
@dibbo: dhonyobaad...
Amar porikkha shesh, tai ami Arthurian Romance niye kono boktobyo raakhbo na.
But,
Rum and Coke. More Rum and Coke. More and More Rum and Coke. Vanilla ice cream, baba'r bichi, ghora'r deem, chocolate... no problem.
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