Good Night Irene
Jan 03Just finished watching “A Scandal in Belgravia,” the first episode of Sherlock series 2. It is so, so good, and would be so, so ruined by spoilers that I will say no more about it, except: It’s pretty much ruined the Doctor Who Christmas special for me. Apart from some feminist grumblings I quite enjoyed [...]
We Daren’t Go A-Hunting For Fear of Little Men
Jan 02More juvenilia: How Two Hunters Were Discouraged By an Apparition (short story, age 12).
By Heaven, I’ll Know Thy Thoughts
Jan 02I realise to my surprise that I never got around to posting my APS paper “Shakespeare, Godwin, Kafka, and the Political Problem of Other Minds.” Okay, now I have. Here’s the abstract: Colin McGinn maintains that Othello is about the problem of other minds. But Othello’s version of the problem – the inaccessibility of particular [...]
The Hand That Rocks the TARDIS
Dec 26Don’t get me wrong; I greatly enjoyed the special, and I think Steven Moffat is the wasp’s elbows. But Moffat’s gender politics do continue to bug me. Ranking especially high on my feminist gripe-o-meter this past season were the “Mrs. Williams” comment in The God Complex, and the revelation that the seemingly independent River Song’s [...]
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