Comments | drownedinink: Women and "The Sandman"

drownedinink

Women and "The Sandman"

Feb 01, 2011 13:08

But why stories like these? All the ones we've heard...it's all boys' own stories, isn't it?...I mean, sure, they pass the time. They entertain. But how do they help you make sense of anything? The world isn't like that.

-Charlene, Worlds' End, Cerements

A woman shouldn't have to sleep her life away. Women aren't about dreaming. We're ( Read more... )

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glazomaniac February 1 2011, 20:01:10 UTC

it's been a while since i've read it, but now i want to go back and have a look at it through this lens.

zurcherart February 1 2011, 20:33:09 UTC

Oh I enjoyed that essay. I have nothing to add really. But coincidentally I re-read the entire Sandman series for the first time since the initial read right after Christmas ( ... )

zurcherart February 1 2011, 22:58:31 UTC

PS I loved Rose's scenes in The Kindly Ones, especially her encounter with the Mother/Maiden/Crone figures in the nursing home. I don't think I appreciated that on the first read.

serizawa3000 February 2 2011, 01:09:54 UTC

I've read more than once Neil Gaiman has said that the "Game of You" story arc was his favorite, and that it was the one not a lot a people liked because of this or that... the violence, the... gender stuff... the brittleness of it, whatever that means.

For the longest time, the Lyta Hall subplot was the one that bothered me most... it doesn't now, but still.

And I still don't like Desire.

slug_life February 2 2011, 04:42:46 UTC

Reading things like this makes me want to cut off all contact with women for the rest of my life -- not because I hate them, but because it focuses my mind on an aspect of the world that makes it appear impossible for a man to ever be anything other than a burden on them.