"There’s this issue you’re not allowed to discuss: that women are needy. Men can go for longer, more happily, without women. That’s the truth. We don’t, as little boys, play at being married – we try to avoid it for as long as possible. Meanwhile women are out there hunting for husbands."
It's true. Has anyone seen a pre-2000 Disney film. I'm from the U.S., so my view is a bit biased, but women are socialized to be needy. We're told, when we're little. that we have to be ladies, that we can't have sex, and one day our prince will come on his white horse and we'll live happily ever after. I remember, as a kid, that all the girls played princess and princes, house, and married themselves to boys that were like, "wtfbbqkthxbai."
Also, marriage is seen as the death of freedom and sexual promiscuousness for men (while, for women, it's the freedom to have sex and the completion of a life goal we were told to have when we were little), so Moff is right when he says this. It's not the case for every. Person. In. The. World. But a vast majority do think that way.
And the second quote... yeah, that's not something I really want to get into, because that's a critical theory essay waiting to happen. I kind of agree with him there, too.
Anyway, Moffat portrays marriage in such a good light. He portrays relationships in a good light. Rory and Amy's marriage meant the start of great adventures (and great sex). And the Doctor and River's "marriage" (at least, in my opinion) is wonderful, too. They get to both be separate people, pursue their own goals and dreams, be free, without the "chains." And, when they come together, they're bad. Ass.
So kudos to the Moff for doing what he's doing. Now, if he could only learn to say it better... but that's the things with thoughts you don't really want to say out loud. You typically don't think through how to say them PC.
And two Amy Ponds is not just the hot-blooded males' fantasy. I was right there with Rory!
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Date: 2011-03-22 03:47 am (UTC)"There’s this issue you’re not allowed to discuss: that women are needy. Men can go for longer, more happily, without women. That’s the truth. We don’t, as little boys, play at being married – we try to avoid it for as long as possible. Meanwhile women are out there hunting for husbands."
It's true. Has anyone seen a pre-2000 Disney film. I'm from the U.S., so my view is a bit biased, but women are socialized to be needy. We're told, when we're little. that we have to be ladies, that we can't have sex, and one day our prince will come on his white horse and we'll live happily ever after. I remember, as a kid, that all the girls played princess and princes, house, and married themselves to boys that were like, "wtfbbqkthxbai."
Also, marriage is seen as the death of freedom and sexual promiscuousness for men (while, for women, it's the freedom to have sex and the completion of a life goal we were told to have when we were little), so Moff is right when he says this. It's not the case for every. Person. In. The. World. But a vast majority do think that way.
And the second quote... yeah, that's not something I really want to get into, because that's a critical theory essay waiting to happen. I kind of agree with him there, too.
Anyway, Moffat portrays marriage in such a good light. He portrays relationships in a good light. Rory and Amy's marriage meant the start of great adventures (and great sex). And the Doctor and River's "marriage" (at least, in my opinion) is wonderful, too. They get to both be separate people, pursue their own goals and dreams, be free, without the "chains." And, when they come together, they're bad. Ass.
So kudos to the Moff for doing what he's doing. Now, if he could only learn to say it better... but that's the things with thoughts you don't really want to say out loud. You typically don't think through how to say them PC.
And two Amy Ponds is not just the hot-blooded males' fantasy. I was right there with Rory!
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