feeling dirty.

Sep 18, 2007 16:07


ok i feel dirty now.
I just had to write a paper on Aristophanes Lysistrata.
normaly this wouldn't be bad but i just had to argue that based on the Ancient Greek ideology of sexuality and genders that the play is little more than an aburdist comedy of dildoes and vibrators refusing to sexualy please their owners because they are upset by the ongoing ( Read more... )

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massagediva September 19 2007, 01:17:54 UTC
Lack of women's right's in average Greek society is EXACTLY why Lysastra is a comedy. 'Powerless' women use the one and only power they have--withholding sex--and it breaks the war and brings peace. The use of dildo is just physical comedy because giant dildos are funny and they disguise the biting message of the play. It's absurd to the male Greek audience because they know on the one hand it could never happen (rape wasn't illegal unless it was another man's wife), but what iF...

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