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[postethotic]

Although much has been written and produced with regard to the male trying to return to the wild (Deliverance, Into the Wild, Rousseau, Thoreau, etc.), the relationship between civilized woman and nature has been almost nonexistent in the arts and academia. Perhaps The New World, as a film, comes closest to revealing a concept of feminine

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[skazat]

There's a spaghetti Western, who's main character is a woman, who always has 50 men on horseback follower her everywhere. She owns a large estate and is control of these men for her protection. They always follow behind her and do her every bidding. It's pretty awesome.

[skazat]

Oh, I should note, she's the badass - the men are *below* her - she doesn't need *their* protection, they need her protection. Kind of a mother/father duality.

[postethotic]

Do you remember the title of the film?

Although often, 'wild women' (have to?) take on masculine attributes. See: Alien, or Tomb Raider, or any 'strong' female role that takes on guns and violence as a mode to power. I'm kind of curious as to what is the alternative (having relied on some masculine attributes myself... some of which were sub/consciously imposed some which are just in my genes and upbringing).

[skazat]

Well, I would ask, why you are always labeling something like a gun, or gun using as a masculine trait? Is it that men were the first to use these? A gun doesn't care if you're a male or female using them: it's just a gun.

If it's that we as a culture associate guns with men, well, cultural views fluctuate. The exception becoming the norm is almost the norm of exceptions. What's pecualiar about this, is that women taking on supposedly male roles will always be seen as just that, just because the usage of various methods and materials are going to be procured by what's already existing. Woman may in fact have to fit the mold of so-called masculine traits (something, I think you see as devolving) before being to express a more eloquent and natural solution to the situation.

I was Googling the title, but I can't find it. Saw it in ABQ last year. It's something like, "[woman's name] 50 guns" or hands. or men. Or something.

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[postethotic]

AWESOME. I keep meaning to read Imperial Leather. I sent it to my friend in prison but never got it for myself. Maybe that will be my next book after I finish reading Midnight's Children.