Friday=asleep
Nov. 21st, 2008 04:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI dreamed some rather surprising stuff involving the 8th Doctor and biting and hands around my neck. On a bus. I guess I can see why my subconscious expects the 8th Doctor on a bus, but I have no idea why he's so kinky. Well, actually, it was more tolerantly amused that humans is so kinky, but still.
I read one chapter and fell asleep. This happens to me a lot, specially on Fridays.
The chapter was good. Greek Tragedy, sociology of, which I didn't finish last time I read it, I think. There was a bit about women - when they haven't got their male guardian around they get in big trouble - and slaves - when they haven't got their guardian around they get women in big trouble, and also there's a difference between natural born slaves and free born people who happen to be slaves and the natural ones just looooove being slaves and care about their masters more than anything and look after them and love them and hug them and did you know the slaves did most of the child rearing? And yet remain slaves. How can you have a system where the people that do most of the looking after end up slaves to people who wander off in all the stories and come back when and if they feel like it, or end up wives to them and supposed to look after the house while their husband wanders off and does who he pleases. Men were allowed to shag whoever they wanted to. But it was Very Bad Form to bring back the whoever and have them move in with the Mrs. It happens in three plays and the immediate consequence in all of them is the man who tries it dies. Agamemnon, Heracles and someone else I can't remember right now. Anyway, women are trouble, when their bloke isn't around or isn't looking after them properly. Slaves are trouble, although born slaves can be very loyal to lots of generations of a family. People that weren't born slaves are instantly recogniseable and can stop being slaves because their quality shines through. People that were born slaves don't got quality. It's all very hegemonic dominant ideology to support the system stuff.
Except.
The bit on Polyphony points out that these stories have women and slaves in them. And they do things. Sometimes bad, sometimes good. And they make speeches. And everyone is equally articulate. This is important, especially in a legal system that was basically people standing up and making good speeches. Women and slaves get to make a case, but only in tragedy. In real life they weren't allowed any such thing. But they get voices in the plays.
So the conclusion of the article is that tragedy is secretly more democratic than the society managed to be, with voices for everyone and everyone making a case for being treated well and every tragedy being about how things go horribly wrong if x is treated badly.
Is a pretty good conclusion.
So I read that and then fell asleep.
On the plus side my back doesn't hurt now. Yaay.
I read one chapter and fell asleep. This happens to me a lot, specially on Fridays.
The chapter was good. Greek Tragedy, sociology of, which I didn't finish last time I read it, I think. There was a bit about women - when they haven't got their male guardian around they get in big trouble - and slaves - when they haven't got their guardian around they get women in big trouble, and also there's a difference between natural born slaves and free born people who happen to be slaves and the natural ones just looooove being slaves and care about their masters more than anything and look after them and love them and hug them and did you know the slaves did most of the child rearing? And yet remain slaves. How can you have a system where the people that do most of the looking after end up slaves to people who wander off in all the stories and come back when and if they feel like it, or end up wives to them and supposed to look after the house while their husband wanders off and does who he pleases. Men were allowed to shag whoever they wanted to. But it was Very Bad Form to bring back the whoever and have them move in with the Mrs. It happens in three plays and the immediate consequence in all of them is the man who tries it dies. Agamemnon, Heracles and someone else I can't remember right now. Anyway, women are trouble, when their bloke isn't around or isn't looking after them properly. Slaves are trouble, although born slaves can be very loyal to lots of generations of a family. People that weren't born slaves are instantly recogniseable and can stop being slaves because their quality shines through. People that were born slaves don't got quality. It's all very hegemonic dominant ideology to support the system stuff.
Except.
The bit on Polyphony points out that these stories have women and slaves in them. And they do things. Sometimes bad, sometimes good. And they make speeches. And everyone is equally articulate. This is important, especially in a legal system that was basically people standing up and making good speeches. Women and slaves get to make a case, but only in tragedy. In real life they weren't allowed any such thing. But they get voices in the plays.
So the conclusion of the article is that tragedy is secretly more democratic than the society managed to be, with voices for everyone and everyone making a case for being treated well and every tragedy being about how things go horribly wrong if x is treated badly.
Is a pretty good conclusion.
So I read that and then fell asleep.
On the plus side my back doesn't hurt now. Yaay.