Mr Pond: an unfinished meta

[curuchamion]

Okay, so this is something I've kind of been thinking about for a while... and let me say upfront that I haven't the faintest notion where I'm going with this. I'm just poking something that looks like it wants to be poked. *big red button

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[sophia_sol]

Interesting post! I have always waffled on my opinions of the Mr Pond thing. Because first of all it's cute, and I like the acknowledgement that it doesn't always have to be wife-takes-husband's-name-after-marriage. But on the other hand, I think it's touching on something I don't really like. He's called Pond because it's obvious that Amy's the one in charge in their relationship, and taking the spouse's name is usually the female role, so what it's doing is equating being the more submissive partner with being in the woman's role. And I don't like that.

In fact, I think what I'm trying to say is, I want to agree with your thesis but I don't know if I do -- that Rory being awesome and being who he is subverts gender politics. Because he doesn't fall into the normal manly roles in the relationship, which is great, yeah, and that is a subversion of gender politics, but I sometimes get the feeling when watching the show that we're not supposed to find that awesome, we're supposed to find it funny.

Which, idk, I worry that I'm just being overy-sensitive and seeing things that aren't there. But that's what I see, and what I'm desperately hoping I'm wrong about...