memery the fourth
Questions courtesy of the inestimable goodnightlady.
1. If you could have lived in a specific time period - the Victorian era, for instance - which one would you have picked and why?
Outside of the current one, you mean? Because when I look, as a woman, at what very very very little I know about history, it seems clear to me that for all its many faults, the twenty-first century is generally a better time to be female than any of its predecessor eras have been. This is not saying much, what with female circumcision and suttee and 35% HIV/AIDS infection rates among women in certain countries and so on and so forth and ye gods on and on. But it's still saying something important about what women - some women - DO have in this current day and age.
If I had to pick a different time period, I'd probably go late Victorian, so I could simultaneously wear corsets outside the home and be a "first-wave" feminist.
2. Society teaches us that we must be thin to be attractive, cutthroat to be successful and that sexually liberated women are whores to men's "studs"; what would Q's society teach us?
...dear God/s in heaven/s, woman. Don't make this too frakking easy, will you?
Okay. Off the top of my head - because if I think too long about it I won't write anything at all - Q's society would teach us the following things:
Love as thou wilt...provided those whom thou choosest to love can say yes - or NO - and mean it.
An it harm none, do as ye wilt - but realize that what you do has repercussions, painful and joyful and variously otherwise, far beyond what you imagine to be the case.
Size does matter. The trick is to realize that all kinds of size matter: cock and cunt, belly and breast, home and head and hearth and heart. The other trick is to realize that "one size fits all" is dangerous bullshit.
Peace takes work. That goes for the microcosmic version just as much as it does for the version with guns and bombs and slick-talking guys in three-piece suits.
Guilt wastes ninety percent of the time it consumes.
Everyone over 18 thinks they're damaged goods.
Backrubs are a necessity of life.
So are cats.
Sex is simultaneously overrated and necessary like blood.
Read.
Think.
Don't confuse honesty and cruelty.
3. You have the power to make one (1) movie into a TV series and resurrect/kill one (1) character, which movie and which character would you pick?
From the intense to the frothy: Four Wedding and a Funeral, and I'd bring Simon back to life in a heartbeat, clashing vests and all.
4. Two in the morning or two in the afternoon?
Morning, definitely. At two in the morning I should be asleep; at two in the afternoon I just want to be.
5. You're locked in a library and told to choose three books, the only books you'll ever be allowed to read again. Which books?
The Lord of the Rings books (...what? Tolkien wrote them as a single book - it was his US publisher that insisted on trilogizing them), Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay, and A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin.
1. If you could have lived in a specific time period - the Victorian era, for instance - which one would you have picked and why?
Outside of the current one, you mean? Because when I look, as a woman, at what very very very little I know about history, it seems clear to me that for all its many faults, the twenty-first century is generally a better time to be female than any of its predecessor eras have been. This is not saying much, what with female circumcision and suttee and 35% HIV/AIDS infection rates among women in certain countries and so on and so forth and ye gods on and on. But it's still saying something important about what women - some women - DO have in this current day and age.
If I had to pick a different time period, I'd probably go late Victorian, so I could simultaneously wear corsets outside the home and be a "first-wave" feminist.
2. Society teaches us that we must be thin to be attractive, cutthroat to be successful and that sexually liberated women are whores to men's "studs"; what would Q's society teach us?
...dear God/s in heaven/s, woman. Don't make this too frakking easy, will you?
Okay. Off the top of my head - because if I think too long about it I won't write anything at all - Q's society would teach us the following things:
3. You have the power to make one (1) movie into a TV series and resurrect/kill one (1) character, which movie and which character would you pick?
From the intense to the frothy: Four Wedding and a Funeral, and I'd bring Simon back to life in a heartbeat, clashing vests and all.
4. Two in the morning or two in the afternoon?
Morning, definitely. At two in the morning I should be asleep; at two in the afternoon I just want to be.
5. You're locked in a library and told to choose three books, the only books you'll ever be allowed to read again. Which books?
The Lord of the Rings books (...what? Tolkien wrote them as a single book - it was his US publisher that insisted on trilogizing them), Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay, and A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin.