Help Leah Graduate
Sun, 22 Oct 2000, 02:28 pmLeah Maher17 posts in thread
Help Leah Graduate
Sun, 22 Oct 2000, 02:28 pmAANNNYYYYWWWAAAAYYYYYY.
I have been at university for a long time now and I am finally within sight of the tape. I know this post is not theatre related but you cannot imagine the feeling of being within a month or two of finishing after six years at Murdoch (actually I have a suspicion some of you do know that feeling).
Basiclly I have a question for all of you. The answers will form the basis of an essay on the cultural construction of everyday life.
"What cultural product do you think best represents the day to day sexual relations between men and women?"
(Not tackeling homosexuality at the point).
Answers in an e-mail please. No names required, just age and gender. And perhaps an explantion if you feel so moved.
It can be any cultural product, film, tv. magazine, book, PLAY...
Some suggestion...Sex in the City, Friends, Fatal Attraction, Mills and Boon novels, Love and other Catastrphes, Playboy, the Windsor Smith billborads, you get the idea. Now how you WANT sex to be, not how it should be, HOW IT IS!!
Your time is much appreciated.
LEAH
I have been at university for a long time now and I am finally within sight of the tape. I know this post is not theatre related but you cannot imagine the feeling of being within a month or two of finishing after six years at Murdoch (actually I have a suspicion some of you do know that feeling).
Basiclly I have a question for all of you. The answers will form the basis of an essay on the cultural construction of everyday life.
"What cultural product do you think best represents the day to day sexual relations between men and women?"
(Not tackeling homosexuality at the point).
Answers in an e-mail please. No names required, just age and gender. And perhaps an explantion if you feel so moved.
It can be any cultural product, film, tv. magazine, book, PLAY...
Some suggestion...Sex in the City, Friends, Fatal Attraction, Mills and Boon novels, Love and other Catastrphes, Playboy, the Windsor Smith billborads, you get the idea. Now how you WANT sex to be, not how it should be, HOW IT IS!!
Your time is much appreciated.
LEAH
RE: Help Leah Graduate
Tue, 24 Oct 2000, 05:16 pmLilly and Malcolm,
I must admit that I have a little difficulty understanding your viewpoint on this subject other than as a (semi) veiled personal attack motivated by a hidden agenda...
Whilst I concede that Malcolm may have a point in his assertion that we should make an effort to maintain the 'purity' of this site, it is difficult to see how we can do this against the ever burgeoning numbers that are being attracted. And there have been several 'variations' to the basic theme of the site since inception. I fail to see how Leah's innocent enough request contravenes the purity of the site in any meaningful way - PARTICULARLY when she wasn't going to be clogging bandwidth by asking for replies to be posted to the board...?
Another 'theatre-only' mailing list to which I was subscribed some time ago was generally dedicated to the esoteric aspects of the theatre and performance art amongst professionals. When a uni student in drama had the 'audacity' to come into the lions den with a query, she was completely humiliated by just about everybody on the site. However, in some ways they were justified because the perception was that any answers given would be plagarised directly into the assignment she was preparing for submission. So she was roundly rousted out of town...
My point? Leah has not asked us for material which could be plagarised but for responses which then have to be interpreted and submitted directly by her. This fact plus her obvious support of this site since its inception should entitle Leah to a bit of leeway in this sort of request...a request she has freely admitted will be unlikey to be made again given the closure of her studies.
In short, a little charity please, guys...after all, there has been precious little of this rare commodity to date with attack after attack followed by bitter reciprocation...I say enough - and I'm sure there are at least a few out there who might agree with me.
Regards
Jason
I must admit that I have a little difficulty understanding your viewpoint on this subject other than as a (semi) veiled personal attack motivated by a hidden agenda...
Whilst I concede that Malcolm may have a point in his assertion that we should make an effort to maintain the 'purity' of this site, it is difficult to see how we can do this against the ever burgeoning numbers that are being attracted. And there have been several 'variations' to the basic theme of the site since inception. I fail to see how Leah's innocent enough request contravenes the purity of the site in any meaningful way - PARTICULARLY when she wasn't going to be clogging bandwidth by asking for replies to be posted to the board...?
Another 'theatre-only' mailing list to which I was subscribed some time ago was generally dedicated to the esoteric aspects of the theatre and performance art amongst professionals. When a uni student in drama had the 'audacity' to come into the lions den with a query, she was completely humiliated by just about everybody on the site. However, in some ways they were justified because the perception was that any answers given would be plagarised directly into the assignment she was preparing for submission. So she was roundly rousted out of town...
My point? Leah has not asked us for material which could be plagarised but for responses which then have to be interpreted and submitted directly by her. This fact plus her obvious support of this site since its inception should entitle Leah to a bit of leeway in this sort of request...a request she has freely admitted will be unlikey to be made again given the closure of her studies.
In short, a little charity please, guys...after all, there has been precious little of this rare commodity to date with attack after attack followed by bitter reciprocation...I say enough - and I'm sure there are at least a few out there who might agree with me.
Regards
Jason
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