[HN Gopher] It's not Jung's, it's mine
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It's not Jung's, it's mine
Author : drdee
Score : 17 points
Date : 2021-01-14 16:52 UTC (1 days ago)
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| mistrial9 wrote:
| This is a mid-length essay revolving around the works, mind and
| books of Ursula K. LeGuin. If you are interested in Fantasy as a
| genre, that writer in particular, and "sexual politics and
| identity" this essay is for you. I wonder why it is on HNews, but
| heck, here it is. I clicked because I am an amateur Jung scholar,
| too.
|
| I read Left Hand in Darkness and most of those Earthsea books as
| a schoolkid when they were new. I like Dungeons and Dragons. I am
| wide-eyed and run away from the seemingly endless amount of
| personal effort people put into 'alternate sexual identities' ..
| similar to a cancer, to me.. an endless and unsolveable and
| ultimately unresolvable morass, foisted into almost every
| Wikipedia article and FOSS post these days. Why cant we keep
| Pandora's Box closed? an intelligent reader might ask.
|
| If this is an interesting essay, then there is one more
| interesting essay in this world. Super. Why does this website
| track my mouse movements while I read then? To present an ad at
| just the right moment, apparently.
|
| As many commentors here have pointed out, 'rage inducing
| headlines' get more quick views. Similarly to my mind, 'alternate
| sexual identity' as fundementally unsolveable also would get
| endless views on the web. I dont care to participate. Choose for
| yourself.
| caconym_ wrote:
| It's entirely your choice whether to recognize people's right
| to define themselves how they want, or to wring your hands in
| "intelligent" consternation at something you don't seem to have
| put much effort into understanding and likely doesn't affect
| you in any significant way.
|
| No doubt it's become an ideological battleground that regularly
| sees real ugliness from all sides, but, again, it's your choice
| whether to let those people define the issues for you.
|
| All that aside, I think it's a big mistake to equate Le Guin's
| work (even _Left Hand_ itself) with either a) brainless SFF lit
| with nothing more to say about being human than the average D
| &D campaign, or b) an expression of the modern left's identity
| politics doctrine, or something like it. Maybe you should give
| her bibliography another look.
| klyrs wrote:
| Ah, yes. LGBT folks as a cancer. Why do we keep talking about
| them? Wasn't it more convenient when men were men, women
| weren't people, and any proof to the contrary was dead or in
| prison? Keep Pandora's box closed, by all means! New rule,
| _you_ get to pick my gender and sexuality, provided you 'll
| accept my choices for you. If by "intelligent" you mean people
| who are closed-minded and can't accept that their understanding
| of the world is incomplete, then yes, an intelligent reader
| _might_ ask that.
| icefrakker wrote:
| I wish people like you wouldn't try and shame shut up people
| you disagree with particularly when you don't seem to
| understand what the person you're disagreeing with is
| actually saying.
| jessaustin wrote:
| _Why does this website track my mouse movements while I read
| then? To present an ad at just the right moment, apparently._
|
| Please improve your life: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/
| wizzwizz4 wrote:
| > _foisted into almost every Wikipedia article and FOSS post
| these days._
|
| I am sincerely sorry that I exist, and am involved in FOSS. I
| shall try my best never to do anything worthy of mention in a
| Wikipedia article - though no promises there; it's possible I
| might get involved in a scandal, or contribute to a project
| that gets popular faster than I can rebase my name out of the
| commit history.
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