Toast Is Sexist
This was my tweeted response to a Cathy Young tweet:
@CathyYoung63
Just came across a Tumblr blog that referred to Mozart's Don Giovanni as "an MRA."I can't even
Yes, everything is an attack on women. Orange juice, bacon, car doors, ferrets, cat memes.
I do have to point out an opera-related favorite (and no, I'm not referring to this because it's "sexist" but because the subject amused the fuck out of me): Tamas David-Barret's Mating Strategies in Mozart's Figaro, which I heard him present at the Human Behavior and Evolution Society conference at !!sexist!! !!racist!! Mizzou this past May.
The abstract:
Since its first performance in 1786, Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro, written in close cooperation with opera's librettist Da Ponte, has inspired a wealth of research in musicology and cultural studies. We study the social relationships of this opera using an evolutionary framework. The protagonists are analysed with respect to biologically-relevant individual traits like gender, social status and reproductive value and via the dyadic ties of sexuality, kinship and friendship. We argue that The Marriage of Figaro displays the major human male and female mating strategies with regards to long and short-term relationships. The biological relevance of the dense social network may explain part of this opera's popularity across centuries, together with its musical, dramaturgical, and overall aesthetical qualities.
yeah, evidently, no one who reads this blog disagrees with you. Certainly not me. Got no respect for any "feminist" who can't hold her own. Probably because I know many not-feminists, who can.
Matt at December 1, 2015 11:58 PM
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