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I noticed that you started the Doctor Who thread...my favorite thread!

I didn't do aaaanything <3 :333

And scheme? What?? o:

I lol'd all through your post xD

I just don't understand. Are you trying to say that the quote is saying that these are inherent qualities of human nature? That would be a misread of the quote. It is saying that those were very prevalent qualities at the time, in the 1930s, which was true.

At any rate, Orwell was a socialist who fought alongside the anarchists in Spain, which is why I find it odd for you to quote him.

Lol, I'm not either. I'm just wondering what you were trying to convey with the quote. I don't necessarily have anything to say about it, because I don't know what you were trying to say by referencing it.

Right, but what were you trying to convey, and how was it relevant to your earlier discussion?

Yes, I got that part. What was the relevancy of the quote?

What was the point of this quote?

Okay, here's a little something extra:



Also, you can delete whatever posts on the wall that you want.

Your wall could use a bit of love and humor.

OH: you aren't on Skype, are you? :3

Hey, as an aspiring female artist, I did just want to point out how blatantly offensive I find this and would like to provide you with a nice, brief view of women in art.

Unfortunately, women have been oppressed throughout the centuries and as such have not had the same opportunities as men except in very specific circumstances, but I would like to point out some female artists that are desperately in need of some credit and were trying to seize equality.

Let's begin, shall we?

I know Astrael has provided you with a list, but I'll provide you with some context and highlights in case you're feeling a bit lazy.


This is a Roman mosaic that copies an earlier Greek painting. It depicts the confrontation of Alexander the Great and Darius III at the battle of Issos. This is a significant painting because it shows a huge progression in the ability to depict perspective. The wheels on the chariots are ellipses rather than circles, there is foreshortening, especially in some of the horses, there's even a bit of atmospheric perspective. This painting is also largely attributed to Helen of Egypt. A woman.



Sofonisba Anguissola is a very well known female artist of the Renaissance. She was forced to stick to portraiture in order to compete with her peers because she was not allowed to view nudes to study anatomy in order to undertake religious pieces. She is quite famous though, it's a shame you've never heard of her.


Artemisia Gentileschi is also quite famous. Her paintings are heavily influenced by the works of Carvaggio, but retain their own unique quality to them. She worked hard to portray strong women or women who were being mistreated in the Bible, if that's not trying to display the plight and potential of women, I don't know what is. Women have been trying to legitimize themselves for thousands of years.


A bit of a skip in time because I'm not quite as knowledgeable in other decades, but if you haven't heard of Mary Cassatt, you've been living under a rock. An impressionist painter, she too tried to depict the lives of women and through art, elevate their place in society to one of reverence. The private lives of women were important aspects of culture, an entire 1/2 of the population was women and they were not having their side of the story of life told. Mary Cassatt tried to change that.


Surely you know this photo, right? It's the definitive "Great Depression" image. And who was the photographer? None other than a woman, one Dorothea Lange. I don't even know what more to say.


Again, surely you know Georgia O'Keeffe? She's pretty damn famous for her feminine imagery.

And there are thousands upon thousands of women artists still at work today. Not just in the fine arts such as painting, but in fashion, advertising, music, sculpture, photography, film, and the list goes on...and as I mentioned in an earlier post, women haven't just been vying for equality in arts this whole time, they've been doing so for centuries. Hatshepsut led Egypt long before Cleopatra, regarded as one of the most successful Egyptian pharaohs bringing Egypt a huge amount of prosperity and wealth when she opened trades with Punt and had great military victories in Nubia. It's also suggested that the first true Emperor of Rome, Caesar Augustus, left his wife Livia in power of Rome in his absence. And from there it only expands.

Women have been trying to make names for themselves and have done fairly well throughout history considering the harsh opposition to such. We're a few centuries behind men unfortunately, you got a bit of a cultural head start. Please don't think that means that we're incapable of or are not trying to be equals, that's fairly ridiculous.

Much love~~
Vynrah

Jeebus, I come over to your wall to send some luvin' and there's all this debating going on. EXCUSE ME WHILE I MAKE LOVE TO YOUR WALL AMIDST THE EXCHANGE OF OPPOSING VIEWS, GOOD SIR.

Liah Plus. Dude, I was all voice call-ish with (Avalanche)Mike when I read that and literally lol'd, and read the quote to him. You make me a happy lady, but I bet all the girls tell you that, even the potentially-guys-pretending-to-be-girls on the internet.

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What position am I claiming to be in? I simply asked you a question. You claimed to be in a position, however, and that's where the assumption arose.

As for the question, no, but you should know about some of the modern, leading minds of the field if you're interested in it. Read up on Chomsky and tell me what you think of him.

When I said it was "irrelevant," I was referring to our prior conversation. You asked "What did he say" as if it was a continuation of some previous conversation (Or if it was relevant to a previous conversation here), which it isn't (The only thing it's a continuation of is the fact that you apparently place value in philosophy; I want to know what you think of one of the most well-respected modern-day philosophers, since you know so much about past ones).

I did want to know what you thought of him, though, as you place a large value on experts, and since you're so interested in philosophy I assumed you would know about one of the individuals academia (Experts) generally considers to be one of the leading minds of the field (If not the most intelligent man currently alive). After all, you can't quite judge modern ideology and thought (As you did previously) without truly knowing it.

Among other fields, of course; he made a name for himself as a linguist, but he's far more.

What he said is irrelevant; I'm assuming that, since you are educated in/know about the field of philosophy, you know about Noam Chomsky, and I want to know what you think of him.

I'm not repeating anything he said, though. What makes you think he's a charlatan?

What do you think of Noam Chomsky?

I actually liked the indirect genocide order, since it destroyed a person Lelouch actually liked before our very eyes, twisting them from a bastion of innocence and virtue into the very embodiment of everything Lelouch and Suzaku were fighting against. The pseudo-philosophical babble was bollocks but that was always over the "last episode" bits, plus in one part of the series I remember C.C. being like "Why are you Lelouch?", Lelouch responding "I've no time for philosophy", and C.C. being like "No, I mean you changed your surname but kept your first name, why?" Which kind of played on the fact that all anime tries to be deeper than it really has the capacity to be. Series 2 has some great moments as well though.