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Re: Fine literary work(Score: 2) by ComteStGermain on Jan 16, 2003 - 01:46 PM | Sk8er has given us here a very interesting and deceptively deep piece of literature, and all anybody can do is to dismiss it (and him/her by extension) because this Sk8er is not part of the right virtual clique?
Perhaps the reason for this unqualified dismissal is more related to the editor's comment which set the mood and dictated the type of response which was expected from the less thoughtful herd and all were merely following suit, claiming the Nuremburg defence. While the observations of Morte and others required effort on their part, they are no less shallow than they allege the article to be, and thus fall into the trap so cleverly set by our author.
Speaking of our author, I notice that this piece contains one lower-case "i", the personal pronoun, a characteristic I have observed while reading the posts of a certain veteran member of this site. I will say no more, for risk of angering the elder ones, but instead I leave this matter to the intellects of the members.
But allow me to address the article itself, if you will.
The author left out several details, no doubt intentionally, which have led to many of you making assumptions and revealing less-than-rigorous thought on the part of all "white-hat" trolls and flamers that have posted responses to this.
First, the article refers to "the prom last night" but does not state that the article itself was written on the day it was posted, so it is very feasible that it was posted at a later date and indeed was written the morning after the Promenade Ball (aptly named, eh wot?) ritual.
Second, "a condom lay next to me" does not specify used or unused, although the word "doing" does certainly infer that a sexual act was experienced.
Third, the fact that this author is called Sk8er does not in itself infer that the author is a skater, or even male, since a female can "do" another female just as easily and the presence of a condom infers nothing in itself. What nobody thus far has seemed to grasp is that this article is deceptively full of content, if you bother to get beyond the first glance.
Example: We see the idea that members of different social classes are equal despite their status, since the two subjects presumably had sex with each other and were from the "preppy" and presumably either skater or "rebel/hood" social castes, while on an athletic field. The lesson here is that all people are equal when they "get real", or maybe the author is saying that alcohol (other beverages come in six-packs, but the getting drunk reference implies an alcoholic beverage) is in itself either a social equaliser or an aphrodisiac.
Example: We see that the more elite social classes are controlled by their own rules, as evidenced by the note left by the female which says that she was disgusted by herself (no doubt because of repressive and dogmatic ideals) but admits to having a good time anyway. This speaks volumes on the subject of the conflict between real human sexuality and socio-religious mores, and specifically the harsher part of the double standard, that part which represses female sexuality as taboo while lauding "scores" for males.
Example: The author is amused at the foolishness of the duality exhibited by the note, and continues on with his or her life. This underscores the above point, because the author is obviously not traumatised by the incident in the way that the female was, probably due to the implied class difference. The author simply had a guilt-free good time and is more spiritually free (symbolised by the motorcycle here), while the uptight female has the idea that she did something wrong, an idea she gets from society and not from her own perceptions of pleasure or right and wrong.
Our author has given us much to think about here if we would only bother to look, and has expressed an incredibly intricate thought which has significant social ramifications, all in the space of four sentences.
I challenge the detractors here who offered no positive criticism to step up and produce a better and more meaningful work than this.
As a post-script, I might add that this article has generated 58 comments as of this posting. Good or not, it has received more attention than most of the recent articles here. The question is, does this say more about the article or its readers? |
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