Karl Rove will have to change his tone now.
Posted on 09/16/2010 10:09:21 AM PDT by Pyro7480
We've learned a lot of quirky facts about Christine O'Donnell. We already knew the Republican Senate nominee abhorred masturbation and believed that looking at pornography was cheating. Well, yesterday, we learned yet more about her view of relations between the sexes – through, of all things, her analysis of J.R.R. Tolkien's work. In a 2003 essay, she wrote about the roles of women in "Lord of the Rings" and argued that Tolkein's female characters offer "insight into what it means to be a woman." But, more importantly, O'Donnell's exegesis gives insight into what she thinks it means to be a woman. Let's take a look, shall we?
She explains that Tolkein's "female characters, although drastically different from each other in personality, manifest at their core, true womanly femininity," and each represents a different female archetype, as she puts it: the "matriarch, princess, and warrior."
...What's most interesting is that, despite waxing poetic about the Middle Earth equivalent of stay-at-home moms, O'Donnell seems to identify more with Eowyn, "Arwen’s opposite." While Arwen is "content to stay at home," Eowyn "feels caged in her role as nursemaid to an ailing king." It's easy to see how this character might inform O'Donnell's personal mythology: "She displays an absolute refusal to watch her country fall down around her while she is doing nothing," she says....
O'Donnell is clearly a determined striver, but it seems she also romanticizes traditional female roles. It's kinda like Sarah Palin claiming to be a regular ol' hockey mom at the same time that she was running for vice president of the United States -- indeed, some are calling O'Donnell "the next Sarah Palin." For now, all I'm comfortable concluding is that she's an Eowyn running on an Arwen platform.
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
Tolkien ping!
Frodo and Sam supports her
if you can’t trust Hobbits, who can you trust
Lil’ Miss Tracy clearly didn’t see the movie, then. No stay-at-home Tolkien heroines there, if memory serves.
What's an "Arwen platform"? Is that where women are beautiful, stay at home, and just comfort their manfolk? Is there any reason at all to think that this is O'Donnell's platform?
And does this journalist even know that Tolkien's view of the world is a profoundly Christian view? I bet the journalist hasn't a clue.
Karl Rove will have to change his tone now.
Christine O’Donnell has made inroads into the Geek community! Geeks vote!
Huh. I heard about that essay when it came out, but didn’t connect it with the woman running for office. Yes, the women in Tolkien offer a refreshing alternative to the usual feminist nonsense.
I don’t know about these stories floating around that she quarreled with the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. I don’t think you can trust ANY of these stories without a lot of checking. But she wrote the essay for their journal.
I have a friend who has worked with the ISI from time to time, and did a book with them. It’s a good organization—conservative, traditional Catholic, concerned about all the rotten Catholic dissidents who have polluted Catholic education in recent decades, and concerned to counter the postmodernist nonsense that came to dominate academia.
So, interesting that she was drawn to work with the ISI. That in itself seems to be another good sign.
Ya just can’t win. Ya don’t read a book, you’re a dummy. You read a book...you’re a dummy. I give a thumbs up to Christine for getting through that tome.
“If you want him, come and claim him!”
My first thought when I read this -
they can dig up EVERY BIT of academic work of ANY conservative,
but EVERY BIT of anything the COMMUNISTS have ever written is off limits, sealed, and kept secret.
NOW $1,000,000!
100%
Since the democrats can’t really talk about the ideology of their man Coons, they will focus on personal attacks on O’Donnell.
This is when O’Donnell needs to focus on policy and the ideology of Coons.
Best guess there is some smut in his past, but his ideology is the best attack.
GASP!
PIAP’S = ???
My head is spinning. Mordor says this?
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