Waterlog

[truepenny]

TIME: 25
DISTANCE: 3.1 mi.
TOTAL: 36.4 mi.
NOTES: Yelling at Prof. Rabkin again.
SHIRE-RECKONING: We're keeping off the Road now.

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I disagree with my learned colleague on so many different points that I can't even list them. So let's just go with the one wherein he is conflating "phallocentrism" with "science fiction." Feminism, goddammit. FEMINISM. You can't be feminist and phallocentric, but you can be feminist and write science fiction. This definition is flawed.

Also, please, for the love of rocket ships, do not generalize from NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE to the genre of science fiction. Please.

Comments

[glinda-w.livejournal.com]

Also, please, for the love of rocket ships, do not generalize from NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE to the genre of science fiction.

??!? (Words fail.)

[calanthe-b.livejournal.com]

...wait, this isn't Eric Rabkin, is it?

You have my undying sympathy. The man is a complete twit when it comes to genre SF/F, but he will keep working in the field... ~growls~

[redbird]

Oh dearie dearie me. Never mind his penis obsession, clearly your colleague hasn't actually been looking at science fiction enough to notice that it and rocket science are different fields.

[coffeeem.livejournal.com]

The more I hear of this, the more I think it's got to be the perfect thing to listen to while exercising. Because the frustration and rage can be taken out on the rowing machine.

You are wise.

The professor may not be always quite so.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Yes. I row faster when I'm mad. *g*

[saltypepper.livejournal.com]

You really are "taking one for the team" with this lecture series. I for one have been simultaneously really amused with your posts and deeply grateful that I am not the one screaming with frustration and scaring the neighbors.

[heresluck]

...some days I weep for my profession.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear. I'm enjoying the heck out of your comments about this series so...well I had to go and google him, and then I read some of his writing, and now it's like a train wreck that I can't look away from!

One cannot help but notice the repetition of "lay," the chugging heat of the rocket, and its erection from "lay" to "stood." --The Romance of Space Travel: On the Sexual Iconography of Spacecraft

ARGH

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

...Hawthorne?

[jeffsoesbe.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes. I remember the penis-centric, Freudian part of the Rabkin Teaching Company lectures. I think this was where I stopped.

You are very brave for continuing on!

- yeff

[retrofit88.livejournal.com]

heh. I know Eric. Sometimes I think he's on a slightly different plane of existence. Possibly one where lots of other men his age sit when reading SF and graphic novels. Nowhere NEAR the one I sit on. Talking along divergent vectors, what?