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Phoenix Johnstone
Autistic. 33.
Interests:
- history
- true crime & criminology
- psychology & sociology
- tabletop roleplaying games
- horror genre
- paganism & other religions/belief systems
Location Edinburgh
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This course has left me with many unanswered questions. I would be interested in exploring these topics further. Still, I have gained a deeper appreciation for the reasoning behind certain aspects of Japanese pop culture.
I am most drawn to the feminine and queer interests within Japanese subcultures. Japan, on the face of it, is still largely...
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While both communities are involved in creating new experiences from original works, there are naturally some differences as these are different mediums. It's true that usually, it would not be an attractive idea to listen to an entire album of only samples. In this way, otaku culture appears to deviate as characters taken from original sources could be...
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I'm most interested in the idols and their fan communities. Specifically, I'm intrigued by what was said by Kasumi Nakamura in her essay in 4.4. I want to explore further the ideas mentioned there about the interplay between idols and particularly their more diverse fans. I want to know what sorts of wider social effects have already grown out of that...
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Returning to masquerade, the point was to disguise your identity rather than live as an established character. I don't think this is an entirely separate idea from what goes on in cosplay, tho it has become more complex and in certain forms cosplay absolutely subverts that aspect.
When you cosplay as your favourite character, when you are in the zone and...
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Masquerade in the original sense of masquerade balls did not require media such as anime, manga, comics, television or modern bands from which to draw its costumes.
In my country, I think there's a lot of costuming but also a lot of cosplay. If you are a person who wants a quick outfit for Halloween, you might choose a non-character such as a black cat or...
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These influencers fill in the gap between everyday people and the sparkling big-name celebrities who might not always engage as readily with their fans. Influencers themselves may become so popular that they break into the arena of such lofty levels of fame. Maybe the more popular an influencer becomes, the more the fans feel responsible for their rise in a...
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The closest analogue I have for this kind of fan culture in the West is that of online influencers. These people are often young and glamorous in some way or other, though their characteristics differ depending on the niche they aim to fill (sports, fashion, geek interests). These influencers interact with their followers through apps and sites such as Twitch,...
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Extremely interesting viewpoint from Kasumi Nakamura, it has really given me new angles from which to think about Japanese idol culture. It is attractive to view idols and their fan communities as safe spaces in which women and minorities can explore themselves (and each other). Nakamura mentions that heteronormativity is still strong in modern Japan. It seems...
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Watching the process of growth sounds far healthier than how I had imagined most Japanese subcultures interacting with the theme of immaturity as presented by the course so far. I would even say the idea is quite appealing to me, though I can see how being an idol could be a lot of pressure for a young individual. I don't know much about the idol industry or...
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I should say I usually don't engage with much media containing robots, Japanese or otherwise, so I'm limited in what personal experience I can draw from for this question.
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I can't readily think of a story outside of Japan with robots made from odds & ends. I'm sure there are depictions of patchwork toys magically given sentience but not really the robots.
The robots I can think of in media outside of Japanese anime & manga are not usually meant to explore immaturity in the same way. There are certainly examples meant to...
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To symbolically embrace early death rather than maturity & transformation into the object of male sexual desire or at least over-sexualisation is incredibly rebellious in a way that fascinates me. My own instinct would be to create a body that is intensely powerful in a way simply too unappealing to the masculine gaze. One that can safely mature as it wishes....
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Unfortunately, I became lost with the last two articles. I don't exactly know what the Astro Boy Problem is yet. Is it a problem the character struggles with or is it a philosophical problem created by the narrative? I've read the articles several times and I'm still struggling to see what I'm being asked.
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Ideas mentioned here seem to align well with my guess about robots & artificial bodies representing a comforting protection to the readership of post-war Japan. It's interesting that Tezuka originally intended for Astro Boy to be more ambiguous & to represent such a set of complex ideas.
Nervousness around the idea of replacing humans and/or human...
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Is as Albain. The name is very close to the Scottish Gaelic, Alba.
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It seems that fictional robots could give a comforting sense of protection to people engaging with those stories. Also, posthumanist ideas/goals could easily be interpreted as people looking to gain their own 'magical agents', those useful aspects for fictional heroes that we learned in Week 2. This would be achieved through the minds of the scientists, who...
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Dia daoibh, an Fhoireann. My anti-virus software is flagging two of the resources suggested in this course & I am looking for confirmation that it's safe to tell the program to let me access those sites anyway. I don't know much about this kind of issue so I thought it best to check with you & with other learners.
Both téarma.ie & foclóir.ie are being...
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It's going to take me some time to get used to the grammatical rules of the Irish language. I don't have trouble making the appropriate sounds, but I find it hard to remember when I should use them. I didn't find it easy to work out which sound the séimhíu was supposed to create in each word it appeared in. It would have been useful to have a more in-depth...
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Dia daoibh. Mise Féinics.
I haven't figured out how to change my surname into an Irish rendering. I'm interested in reading/watching/listening to anything from native Irish speakers on how they are handling gender nonconformity.
We've already seen that some married women choose to avoid the word 'bean', a decision based on social & cultural values...
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Although I can't think of examples closer to my home, I know a few superstitions about curses from other areas of the world.
There's Moll Dyer, a woman who is supposed to have lived in Leonardtown, Maryland during the 17th century. The story goes that a mob chased her out of town in the dead of winter. They believed she was a witch & that when she died out...
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Oh, an extra thought: I wonder how much the idea of the curse of Mayo has thrown the team players off their game at crucial moments. You could argue that it is a self-fulfilling prophecy & there's no divinity or magic to it. But if the effect is the same, if the team fails to secure the win until the last player is dead, then this curse did in fact succeed...
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Again, I'm unfortunately extremely disconnected from my home culture, so I can't say that I know of any particular blessings or curses. I know one or two superstitions about areas where you can elect to perform an action & if you do, you either have good or bad luck. I don't think that's the same though, as I don't believe these have had a person actively...
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I feel like I grew up in quite an Anglicised area & in a social environment pretty stripped of its culture. I can't easily think of common blessings or curses. Well, I can think of some more modern cultural curses but they're far too rude to post here.
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My internet protection programmes are warning me about the sloinne.ei site for some reason so I won't use it for now.
Are there any options for a gender-neutral rendering or is this not possible in acceptable conventions?
I'll do both forms for this activity. I think I'd like to use my grandfather's name first name, Ronald, which I believe would become...
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My birthname was English & the name I chose for myself isn't from a Celtic language either. But being born & bred in Scotland, it would be difficult for me not to encounter Irish names and their Gaelic counterparts. I love names in any Celtic language.
I'm quite disconnected from my family, so I can't work out what I would choose for those particular...
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The focus by adults on real-world high school baseball & other youth sports feels problematic as it puts a great deal of pressure on youth who must already experience a great deal of tension in the simple fact that they are still maturing. Even if these are harmless competitions, it still feels intrusive to me in the long run. The young must be allowed to be...
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I'm not sure why I enjoy competition & battle narratives aimed at young girls & teens. In those cases, slight versions of the emotional & social themes I can enjoy may show up in them. Most societies want to encourage these viewers/readers in their expected gender roles of nurturers, etc. I feel this adds enough flavour to the mix for me.
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a challenge with no promise of success.
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As I said in my last comment, I often fail to find the battle narrative interesting when the presumed audience is young boys/teens. But if the audience changes into either young girls or mature adults of any gender, I am much more easily engaged.
I have never had much of a competitive spirit. I mostly enjoy cooperative activities or solitary ones. So the...
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I've never had much of an interest in school club-related fiction within Western media, but I have enjoyed aspects of it from manga/anime.
On the few occasions I've actually engaged with similar themes in Western media, it has been in a magical/fantasy setting in which a young protagonist learns their powers in a school setting. I was drawn to stories like...
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I realised when the story reached the wolfhound that I'd read this before in the past. My memory retention was poor because I knew I was uncertain about pronunciations. I think I was looking up Irish mythology because it was coming up in the TTRPG, Werewolf: The Apocalypse.
This is the kind of story that writers & creators love to take inspiration from...
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Allies are an attractive auxiliary means in my mind as they promote the idea of working together with others & being better for it. It's a great lesson to teach. Find strength in your friends as well as your own skills because trying to do it all yourself isn't realistic.
Of course, it would be far more appealing if these allies were all children. Any adult...
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I've chosen an answer I would have given as a child. I didn't feel confident in my physical abilities & did not enjoy direct conflict. I would give some kind of granted ability or item that bestows the user with stealth, agility, invisibility & the like. If it wasn't a supernatural power granted directly to the hero, then it would be something discreet &...
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I think I felt *too* vulnerable as a child and was desperate to grow up and escape. As an adult, I can say with certainty that it wasn't mere childish hyperbole, it truly was a bad situation. I feel a bit wistful about having missed out on a chance to connect more with these sorts of themes, as I believe they do resonate well with Western children too, though...
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Most examples I have come from video gaming (though I watched the anime in the case of Pokémon). I played several JRPGs such as Grandia & Pokémon. In these games, you took the role of a young boy/girl and sometimes even directed a party of several youths.
In Grandia, the stakes become incredibly high with the fate of the known world resting on you. Your...
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As for whether I am attracted to immaturity, I am not drawn to it in its entirety. I admire & love the playfulness and the way in which connecting with our inner child is an act of rebellion towards adult expectations, but there are limitations for me. I wouldn't want to risk disconnection from reality so I won't delve too deeply into childhood...
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When the youth becomes an actual adult, immaturity remains socially unhelpful within a competitively individualistic society. Nobody is going to look after you, so you need to do so yourself, or so the thinking seems to go.
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Certainly, there are those in my culture who use immaturity to try to dodge the increased burden of living in this place between presumed equality and actual equity of genders. A woman may lean into girlishness to attract the kind of mate she assumes will protect her as a way to avoid the weight of the "modern woman who has everything" facade. Otherwise, she...
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Yaoi & BL genres seem to provide female readers and artists with a fictional arena to accomplish several goals. Some of those goals are merely an enjoyment of fantasy, but others can relate to investigating where these women find themselves within their wider culture/society and how they relate to others. Perhaps when a lover of yaoi looks into their...
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I hadn't naturally considered the idea that women reading yaoi may find it appealing because they do not have to see any competition for their fantasy-based affections. I am queer in a variety of ways, so I've never looked at life in that way. But when it is explained, it becomes quite understandable to me. Obviously, the loss of a love or sexual interest is...
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This is sounding more and more as if one of the strong motivations is the need to grab hold of 'masculine' power. Why are non-consensual & violent aspects such common themes in yaoi? It seems that because these female readers & writers subconsciously (or consciously) equate these overt actions to a power they do not hold in reality, they may be able to...
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I wonder if there is a desire to see the feminine with the masculine. I do not consider romantic relationships between men to be inherently effeminate, but I know many people around the world still do. So, reading or viewing a male character falling in love or engaging in sexual relations could provide female readers with a way to feel connected to the male...
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I've seen more of the ways kawaii can be used by those who embrace it, in both harmless & maybe less innocent ways. Engaging in cuteness can provide a balm of comfort in a frightening world. Yet if a person infantilises themselves in certain ways, they might hope that someone will save them from humiliation or danger in mature life, a maladaptive thought...
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I don't think my culture does as much capitalising on 'cuteness' or kawaii itself, at least not in products or media created. We tend to import these objects, media & ideas from Japan as a way to cash in on the sections of our society who have grabbed hold of them through interaction with manga/anime. However, it could be I just haven't properly noticed our...
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Amae-like attitudes can show up in romantic and friendship settings where I live. This kind of codependency/dependency tends to be criticised if it doesn't follow the usual socially acceptable limits or if the people involved do not hide enough of the workings from others. I come from a fairly individualistic culture that believes adults should fully care for...
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This is close to part of what I was trying to express in my previous comment. Plushie toys and sweet pets are objects/beings that people in many cultures worldwide want to protect. With pets especially, we protect them and then we receive their love, warmth, and softness because of this. If we are hurting from a cruel outside world, we can come to these...
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Kawaii is represented in the Padlet primarily by stuffed toys and similar items you could describe as childlike in their appeal. Soft, gentle, non-threatening. There can be said to be safety and comfort in these items. These could be seen as immature items without a place in adult life, although personally, I disagree with such an opinion.
Kawaii is...
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I had thought that 'kawaii' was simply a translation of 'cute'. Clearly, there are additional layers to 'kawaii', perhaps aspects which are not as present in the English 'cute'.
The English word 'cute' still does reference a highly youthful & intrinsically feminine idea. We do use 'cute' to describe masculine objects of admiration, although this is more...
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I think it's just a matter of learning how the spelling rules differ from English. English spelling has plenty of weird quirks, exceptions, etc. and I've long felt sorry for anyone trying to pick it up.
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I haven't read any otometic manga so I'm not sure what role friendship plays with the subgenre. However, just because the characters usually acquire their need fulfilment through romance probably doesn't automatically exclude the helpfulness of platonic friendship to the characters as a whole.
But friendships in a heteronormative world, most especially...
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The themes of "you love me for who I already am" & "I love you for who you already are" are absolutely present within Western media too. I'm sure children's & adolescents' media has evolved in some way since I last engaged with it, but I doubt these two themes have vanished. Perhaps some Western eyes may read this as some quirk of a more communal-oriented...
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students' misidentification of her. They think she was born male & the young men of the host club assist her in this disguise. Haruhi maintains the power to push back against at least the high school social expectations of a maturing femininity.
Chii, the advanced AI android from Chobits, is an interesting take. I know she was created by an all-female...
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I don't recognise anything discussed here regarding shōjo identity or concerns. But I know that likely means I'm divergent from the general population even in my home country. While young girls here often display a more overtly rebellious & sometimes sexualised desire for maturity, there are also many who are frightened to grow up. Most cultures around the...
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I can't think of protagonists from any Japanese media I've enjoyed resisting growing up. Certain side characters, perhaps, but the main protagonists usually wanted to be taken more seriously or at least relished the ability to strike out on their own. I don't remember Ash Ketchum being interested in overly cling to childhood, for instance.
At most, I can...
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I'm excited by the ideas discussed here. I'm not sure if my previous comments on the course have made it seem like I view the Japanese as a whole as 'immature', but that's definitely not what I intended. I personally reject the idea of the 'primitive vs civilised' viewpoint of modernisation.
That's not to say I don't feel the topic isn't worth...
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The F character is fearn & the tree associated with it is the alder ("fearnóg"). The ash tree's Irish name is fuinseog with the corresponding ogham character being N, "nuin".
Hope that helps. You can look up the tree names on Wikipedia or Wiktionary if you'd like confirmation. It's how I worked it out.
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Some people on padlet are being confused by info in this section.
If your name begins with an F (fearn) then your tree should be Alder ("fearnóg"), not Ash ("fuinseog"). Fuinseog is the name of the Ash tree, rather than the name of the Ogham character. I was confused for a moment too!
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I tried to find the Irish equivalent of my first name & found 'féinics'.
So here's the ogham:
ᚃᚓᚔᚅᚔᚉᚄ
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Dia duit!
Both sides of my family have Irish ancestry. It's from my some of my great-great grandparents' generation who moved to Scotland. Although I knew my great granny in life (& now own her claddagh ring), she didn't talk about her father's homeland to me & I didn't have any interaction with any extended family from over there. So I'm quite curious...
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I spent a year of high school in the Scottish Highlands. I was sadly not provided any Gaelic lessons as I was already in my third year of high school. But I did hear it many times while moving from class to class.
I've tried to teach myself Scottish Gaelic but I struggle with self-directed language study. There also doesn't necessarily seem to be many...
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There seems to be a desire to cling to the innocence of childhood as opposed to dealing with the complexities of adult life within a globalised community & a closer to home sensation of push and pull between tradition & discovery.
From the outside, there looks to be a lot that's socially expected of the average Japanese person that might not mesh with...
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I don't think there's much I'll avoid except for the more sexualised content mentioned in the last section on otaku culture.
Certain looks make me uncomfortable, like the older ganguro & the newer yamanba/manba. But that has to do with the visual representation, not the behaviours & other aspects. I'd be interested in learning more.
I can't think of any...
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I played a lot of Japanese horror & fantasy video games as a kid. I was into Pokémon both as a game & a show. I would also watch a few different anime shows on Cartoon Network.
As a teen, I got into slightly more mature anime & read more manga. For a while, I was deeply into these interests, tho not as much as I would have liked. I lost my connection with a...
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In my country, there are youth subcultures influenced by the desire for social status & wealth. These are likely a reaction to messaging we receive thru media which can be compared to the "American Dream". Money & fame is power and in a country with much inequality, youth feel a desperate need for power but wish for it on their own terms.
There are other...
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*How do you think the world sees Japan today?*
I think the majority of the world views Japan as a technological innovator which still holds onto its old traditional charm.
*Why does Japanese subculture attract global attention?*
This juxtaposition of the honoured past & the exciting future is likely perceived by most as a desirable cultural...
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I would define a subculture as any meaningful subdivision within a wider regional Culture. A subculture could be made up of many types of people with various lived experiences who nonetheless share significant beliefs, behaviours and/or aesthetic & artistic values which are not immediately inherent in the wider Culture.
Subcultures don't have to be...
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That's perfect, thank you. I have until May, so I'll definitely have this done by then. December has become a bit of a hermit month.
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Thanks for the response. To clarify, do you mean the year I paid for, or until January? I'm guessing at the end of the paid year, but just need to check I've understood. :)
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I've skipped ahead to ask a question. I am not feeling well at all recently, but I love this course. I don't know if I'll be able to engage this month at all, and I've only reached the start of week 4.
I know mentors will not be hanging around at the end of the official run, but is there a time limit for achieving the certificate? I have FutureLearn...
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I'm happy that others are happy, really. To be able to do this kind of course on an already beloved author must be such a treat. I might have to drop this course at the moment, unfortunately, as Life has reared its ugly head and I don't have the mental energy.
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How do non-binary individuals speak about themselves or each other then?
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I asked the question already on the appropriate page, but I'll repeat it here in case it is missed (though I might be too late in asking). How does Dutch treat the nonbinary gender-neutral personal pronoun? Is it zij/ze? And if so, do you treat the verbs as singular or plural? I would imagine there would be trouble distinguishing what's going on.
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When using gender-neutral pronouns for a singular person known to you, would you use zij/ze? How would you separate it from the feminine? Would you use it as a plural?
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I haven't read Jane Austen's books, so I can't comment on these questions. But wow, am I a little bit envious! I wish I had brothers who would enable me to go and see great theatrical performances, or who owned libraries. It must have been thrilling, especially when you consider what is possible for us in our modern age. People in the 18th-century couldn't...
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I keep saying this, but I haven't read any of the books. I'm not sure which of these are most likely. Other peoples' comments will steer my right after I post.
- Her home life (the usual squabbles, making up, domestic chores completed with one another, etc.)
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I'm looking forward to learning about that preface by Henry!
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I wasn't surprised as I learned about ancient Greek and Roman diets earlier in the year.
I would say the reason for building high-rise block apartments is the same now as it was then. For space. Rome's population was impressive and expanded quickly. They still needed areas around the city for agriculture and other matters such as places to bury the dead. It...
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I'm not sure how much I'm missing considering I've never read anything by Jane Austen. There were points during the second half of the week that I found myself struggling to engage fully. I don't know if I want to be convinced to read her works by this course, or if I really am focused purely on the surrounding environment. I have much more interest in the...
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Having read comments by others, it seems I am off the mark. Is the main issue to do with Jane Austen feeling girls were not taught to be hard-working enough or friendly enough?
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The description we have of Mrs Goddard's school fits in line with the idea that a girl ought not to let her imagination run wild, something Hannah More seemed to encourage. This similarity is interesting as, although More didn't read to me as radical as Wollstonecraft, she indeed questioned the use of the traditional restrictions put upon girls. Emma seems...
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I don't have any experience with Jane Austen's novels. I'll have to work with these extracts.
I know Elizabeth Bennet is a well-beloved and strong-willed protagonist. The fact that she handles de Bourgh so deftly and does not view it as worrisome that her family didn't have a governess. She also doesn't care that the Bennet sisters can't all sing or draw....
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Ah, good, then I'm not missing anything obvious. I'll consider it and come back to it later. Thank you for explaining.
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I'm back to leaning towards Augustus for taking what Caesar had in mind and running with it, as well as coming up with his personal ideas. I'm stuck on that whole 'setting a precedent' idea when it comes to 'who was most influential'.
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Where else might a Roman be met with a deity?
- on bridges and along roads
- in bathhouses
- places of entertainment like theatres & circuses
- perhaps in the communal toilets
- the kitchens were Romans who didn't have their own could go to cook their food
- in gardens throughout the city
- on fountains and water featuresIn terms of what effect...
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The proper conduct of a woman in her Divinely appointed task would appear to be More's concern. While she wants women to be smarter, this is so that they can do better in the home and their assumed place in life. However, just like Wollstonecraft, More is arguing for rationality.
In one way I reject the idea of encouraging women to abandon imagination. On...
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I feel we still see this in traditional gender roles to certain extents, and while much of what Wollstonecraft says doesn't fit with the modern audience, the main idea of gender behaviour as a nurtured construct rather than a natural one is important.
Hannah More argues women are taught to deal with 'practical' (domestic) matters rather than for their...
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Wollstonecraft argues that, while education for women is taken more seriously in her time than in the past, women are still seen as foolish and are instructed to act in ways pleasing to the men who will marry them. This encourages many to affect silly mannerisms and stifles any rational ambitions of the mind. Smart women have also worked out a way in which to...
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The square leading to the Pantheon provides a lot of anticipation. Even if you didn't know what was inside yet and expecting a typical temple, it would also accentuate the traditional style of the outer face of the temple. When you step inside after that walk up, you are dazzled by the difference to your expectations.
The oculus allows different areas to be...
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I'm having trouble working out what is meant by the second question. Significant to the Romans at the time? Significant in terms of architecture? Significant in the potential intended impact?
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There we go! I have it. I was a bit confused about how it was described in this lesson, but now I will be able to search correctly. Thank you for helping.
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I was interested in the part about Wollstonecraft writing a conduct book before she wrote Vindication. I looked into it a little further and found there is an argument about whether or not Thoughts would be viewed as radical to later readers had she not written Vindication. I wish I knew whether Austen ever glanced at either publication and what she thought if...
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I don't know much about Jane Austen's work at all. Embarrassingly, I only know the story of Pride and Prejudice through watching 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies'. From that, I would say that Austen refused the idea women should be encouraged to hide their intellect or adhere to other rigid ideas of the time. However, again from that parody film, I imagine...
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On Quizlet (and in the dialogue), one of the phrase flashcards has "Wie ben jij?" as "What is your name?", but surely to say "Who are you?" to somebody is an incredibly rude way to ask that. I asked my Dutch friend and they are also perplexed. Is this an error?
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For people wondering about how the dates interact, it seems Jane Austen would have been about 22 when Mary Wollstonecraft died giving birth to Mary Shelley at age 38. "Vindication of the Rights of Woman" was published in 1792, I believe, and at that time Austen would have only been 17 (depending on the months, which I'm a bit too lazy to interrogate at the...
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As I said in a previous comment, one of the main reasons I'm here is to compare my learning surrounding Mary Wollstonecraft's experiences and views with Jane Austen. I don't know much about Wollstonecraft as it was a brief introduction, but I imagine that the two women would seem to be quite oppositional to one another when taken at face value. I want to work...
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Thanks for the advice, but unfortunately, I still can't find anything for Forster and only one unrelated entry when I search Virginia Woolf. I returned to it fresh today, put in the search the same as I did for Bronte, double-check that nothing was selected that shouldn't be. But nothing.
So, that's 'Austen' in Keyword (evidence). Name input for the...
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If there is anything I am surprised about, it would be how the temple of Juno compares. I didn't expect it to be anywhere near as large as Jupiter's, but I did think there would be a bit more flair to the surrounding area. Maybe it just doesn't translate in the model. Of course, Juno is worshipped up with Jupiter, so it does make sense that they wouldn't...
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I'm still getting to grips with the model but that's more to do with me than anything else. Because I go between crawling and zooming about, I had a hard time noticing anything apart from the sheer scale and grandeur of the summit for Jupiter. The statues and architecture certainly made an impression on me.
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Structures such as roads and walls have extremely important functions. They keep you safe, they lead you on your way, all the ways in which you would imagine benevolent deities might aid you if you behaved correctly. Considering these structures as sacred would remind you of their importance and the importance of whatever deities were connected to those...
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My fatigue brain fog is pretty bad right now. I'll have to come back and work out what I did wrong this time round.
