tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post6904648068707105892..comments2024-03-22T05:17:53.112-04:00Comments on Big Bad Bald Bastard: ERMAHGERDS! Thor's a Chick!!!Big Bad Bald Bastardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-33964606554230174612014-07-18T22:42:23.007-04:002014-07-18T22:42:23.007-04:00"THIS SHALL NOT STAND!", the nerdragers ...<i>"THIS SHALL NOT STAND!", the nerdragers thundered.</i><br /><br />This shall not stand to pee!<br /><br /><i>Several of our favorite male deities/heros spent considerable time in drag....not only Thor, but my favorite Indo-Aryan, Arjuna the hero-archer, for one.</i><br /><br />Oh, yeah, Arjuna spent an entire year as a woman. I love <a href="http://www.litkicks.com/WilliamBuck" rel="nofollow">William Buck</a>'s "retellings" of the <i>Mahabharata</i> and <i>Ramayana</i>. I didn't know much about his life until finding the linked site- pity he died at the age of 37.<br /><br /><i>You might like this...</i><br /><br />That's hilarious... and welcome back to the internet, prodigal fish!<br /><br /><i>I wonder if gods in drag is one of those collective subconscious thingmagigs. You have Achilles disguised as a girl and now this. </i><br /><br />A lot of trickster gods switch gender pretty often. I think people were much more comfortable with fluid gender identities and liminal states of being before the dualistic, monotheistic patriarchy took over. <br /><br /><i>Butthurt fanboys are the best kind of fanboys, because they are forced to admit, via long digital rationalizations made of dried tears and the gossamer filaments of their own shattered dreams, that the real reason they hate brown/queer/female heroes is that they cannot make use of them as playable characters in their masturbatory, branded fantasies.</i><br /><br />Now <i>that</i> is a sentence! Beautifully, and humorously put, Emma!<br /><br /><i>If a person wanted to read an interesting modern criticism/interpretation of the Eddas et al., what book would you recommend? This person especially like ebooks, but is not incredibly picky.</i><br /><br />I honestly don't know. I think the key is to find a good, unexpurgated translation of them. For instance, in the original tale of the marriage of Skaði, Loki makes the giantess laugh by <a href="http://norse-mythology.org/tales/the-marriage-of-njord-and-skadi/" rel="nofollow">tying a goat to a certain part of his anatomy</a>... the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/DAulaires-Greek-Myths-Ingri-dAulaire/dp/0440406943" rel="nofollow">D'Aulaires</a>, as much as I revere them, left that detail out.<br /><br />I'm one of those nerds who studied Old Norse in college- just one course, though. I'm not a big comic book fan, with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenozoic_Tales" rel="nofollow">one notable exception</a>.Big Bad Bald Bastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-84592341309923032822014-07-18T11:04:42.203-04:002014-07-18T11:04:42.203-04:00Bwahahahahah!Bwahahahahah!Syrbal/Labryshttp://www.experientialpagan.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-63944804977981792652014-07-18T10:43:24.071-04:002014-07-18T10:43:24.071-04:00I wonder if gods in drag is one of those collectiv...I wonder if gods in drag is one of those collective subconscious thingmagigs. You have Achilles disguised as a girl and now this. Juleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17390791792685104671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-82775286471903591482014-07-17T19:01:48.174-04:002014-07-17T19:01:48.174-04:00You might like this...You might like <a href="http://textsfromsuperheroes.com/post/91917486206" rel="nofollow">this</a>...fishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01522672049371678717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-25811080576502436642014-07-17T10:13:08.838-04:002014-07-17T10:13:08.838-04:00It always amuses my roughly Nordic spirituality-mi...It always amuses my roughly Nordic spirituality-minded son when the comic fanboys get the vapours. Both of us laugh when female dress is invoked as the last fainting couch.<br /><br />Several of our favorite male deities/heros spent considerable time in drag....not only Thor, but my favorite Indo-Aryan, Arjuna the hero-archer, for one.syrbal/Labryshttp://www.experientialpagan.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-52835804413402228702014-07-17T09:22:55.309-04:002014-07-17T09:22:55.309-04:00"THIS SHALL NOT STAND!", the nerdragers ..."THIS SHALL NOT STAND!", the nerdragers thundered.<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.com