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tiamatschild

A quick observation about the cultural discourse around whaling...

Feb 18, 2010 21:46

The commercial exploitation of whales has always been multifaceted, but the most valuable product derived from them has always been the unsaturated fat produced by rendering their blubber. Whale oil ( Read more... )

gender politics, dodgy methods of discourse, whales, history, ecology, gender, rhetorical framing

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Borrowing a phrase from the tfwiki... tainry February 19 2010, 04:59:06 UTC

...Dammit, patriarchy!

I contemplated a lengthier comment, but I've got Drift and Perceptor snogging, and the Constructicons have gone neutral and are building a bachelor-pad city under the mountains in Norway, and the above actually sums it up pretty well. =_=

tiamatschild February 19 2010, 05:07:00 UTC

Yeah. I only started to notice the disconnect between discourse in general texts on history and enviroment and discourse in texts actually on whaling fairly recently.

Robots are much nicer than factory ships! And Norway's a great place for a bachelor pad really. They could visit the famous music festivals! Only not. Because they're scary. But they might be Mixmaster's kind of thing.

tainry February 19 2010, 05:22:29 UTC

A common problem, I think. Once you get to know the details, the generalities look pretty wan.

8D I'll have to have Mix tune in, then. They're not comfortable appearing aboveground yet anyway. Hook's looking around, enjoying the reflection of the aurora on Lake Rypedalsvatnet and everyone is yelling at him about it. Although Scavenger goes up too, secretly.

tiamatschild February 19 2010, 14:34:02 UTC

Or you start to notice that the generalities picked are... not particularly effective generalities. Or else they're generalities that can be safely displaced. Onto the past or onto an already current cultural narrative about who to blame.

*laughs* Of course he is. No, Hook, our cover! I generally think of Mixmaster as enjoying social music. I'm not sure why. And, of course, at a festival you have rather a lot of people doing interesting things with recreational alteration of body chemistry. (Which has got to be an aspect of human culture he finds cool and slightly frustrating - look, people, this is totally normal, see, entire species do it all the time! Why must you be such spoilsports.)

tainry February 27 2010, 07:57:04 UTC

Mmhmm. -_ ( ... )

tainry February 27 2010, 07:57:17 UTC

Scavenger, unable to decide what he wanted to construct for himself, dug tunnels to connect everyone else’s projects. He lined them with mosaics of whatever minerals they found. The designs were starting to get interesting, but Hook wasn’t about to say so ( ... )

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