Hunchback of Notre Dame – reheard
Rummaging through my enormous Disney collection, I decided to listen to the soundtrack for Hunchback of Notre Dame again. Perhaps it’s the grown-up talking in me now, but I started to wince at the amount of dark themes in this story, and it’s darker than any Disney film. The dark themes aren’t surprising, since it’s [...]
Writing issues
For all my inability to communicate verbally and being unable to distinguish what’s sarcasm and isn’t, I’m incredibly sensitive to the way people write. It’s the way people phrase their words that ticks me off the most, and sadly, I’m never able to properly rationalize why a certain style of writing makes me so angry. [...]
Class Participation and SMU
So Jac posted this documentary of SMU (made by SMU) about the issue of class participation. Or at least it meanders around this issue and never actually gets a point. I suppose it tried to find some balance in the entire thing by showing both the pro and con side (and sticking some predictable ‘think [...]
Sexual Objectification
I wanted to post only after I finished up my new layout for the website (for some reason, it’s a brilliant shade of purple), but there’s this really pressing issue that’s been on my mind for some time, specifically the issue of sexual objectification. For all my feminist foot-stomping and expressions of disgust at how [...]
Chinese and Japanese
It’s so cold I have a headache. Ow.
Okay, time to wail about where this post (and its responses) went wrong. I tried to let the thing slide into ‘I forgot’ territory, since my attention span is the equivalent of a retarded bunny, but I forgot to disable emailing comments. So I got this comment in [...]
Moral Relativism
Having someone call me a ‘moralfag’ the other day made me wonder about my position on moral relativism. I’ve always held the position that nothing is inherently good or evil – it completely depends on the social situation and culture. Gwen and I had a pretty long discussion about that for her Philosophy 101 class, [...]
