you must read this.
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vanitashazeSecond Verse (Same As the First). SGA.
"The Marines call it the Planet of the Willing Virgins, you know." It's the 'willing' part that's debatable.
When I rec a story, I usually do it because I like it, for whatever reason, and because I like it it's implied that you may not; what moves me may not move you. Often, these things, these stories, they are beautiful, and should be read. Rarely do I find something that not only should be read, but needs to be. But this - this needs to be read.
This is important.
"The Marines call it the Planet of the Willing Virgins, you know." It's the 'willing' part that's debatable.
When I rec a story, I usually do it because I like it, for whatever reason, and because I like it it's implied that you may not; what moves me may not move you. Often, these things, these stories, they are beautiful, and should be read. Rarely do I find something that not only should be read, but needs to be. But this - this needs to be read.
This is important.
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Date: 2009-02-13 02:42 am (UTC)So I read coffeeandink's review, and then a few days later, I was reading my Mexican History textbook - college level textbook - kind of skimming over all this coy winking about "spoils of war" and how the French soldiers enjoyed "begrudging female companionship", and I remember thinking, wait, what? Because there was about half a page written about this, so smug you could almost feel the smirk, and nowhere in that whole paragraph did the author ever mention the word "rape".
Because, obviously, mestizos and poor Mexican women can have begrudging sex with any number of pillaging French soldiers, and it's absolutely fine. Just spoils of war.
moralities of historiography
Date: 2009-02-13 06:26 am (UTC)Sometimes I have to go with my knee-jerk reaction, and my knee-jerk reaction is that fucking fucker.
Re: moralities of historiography
Date: 2009-02-19 01:56 am (UTC)Re: moralities of historiography
Date: 2009-02-19 04:01 pm (UTC)Here, have an adorable YouTube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7ehlw_phys) of news anchors with an elaborate chair-dancing, handshaking routine (on the off chance you haven't seen it before). That's my equivalent of kittens on a roomba or whatever, for delight.
Re: moralities of historiography
Date: 2009-02-20 09:05 pm (UTC)I will never again be able to watch news anchors with a straight face.
Hope your internet access is doing just fine!
Date: 2009-02-21 11:10 pm (UTC)The Secret Lives of News Anchors: Commercial Breakdancing(?? !)
Re: Hope your internet access is doing just fine!
Date: 2009-02-25 08:35 pm (UTC)Re: Hope your internet access is doing just fine!
Date: 2009-02-26 01:38 am (UTC)Re: Hope your internet access is doing just fine!
Date: 2009-03-02 12:50 am (UTC)Ah, but must we suffer with them?
Re: Hope your internet access is doing just fine!
Date: 2009-03-02 01:54 am (UTC)