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This was an interesting article, but it felt very short. There wasn’t really anything said about the pathologizing of sex in Western culture, which would have provided a solid background on which to centrally frame people’s issue with the art, and I was surprised that nothing was said about Mann’s children’s views (insofar as they are known) about their mother’s photography.
Otherwise, it inspired me to read more about the artist. Thanks for writing and sharing 🙂

Thanks for writing and sharing 🙂 I live in Australia and we get a lot of second-hand pop culture from America, and other things along with that but without the cultural context. I’ve been meaning to see Hamilton or buy the album, this was the motivator I needed to actually go ahead and do it.

Thank you so much for this article. I’ve been looking for a concise and readable example to show friends who have never heard of this trope or think it’s harmless. I’m glad also that you pointed out it isn’t a comic-exclusive trope, though I did feel it was possible to include other books and movies in the list. I was also hoping you would touch on other ways that female characters are removed from story lines, if only to point out that WiR isn’t alone in being a gatekeeping mechanism to keep casts predominantly male.

But those things aside, this is one of my favourite articles i’ve read so far on this site. Thank you for sharing 🙂

This was interesting article with some engaging subject matter, and provided a fairly tight distinction between two different types of separate universe.

I think you could probably have explored the subject deeper, and possibly looked at the varying ways science has been used to justify a parallel or alternate universe. There also wasn’t much exploration of the distinction between those things and a commercially-motivated remake (you mentioned all the movie adaptations of Superman – this would have been a good paragraph to put it in).

Other than that, I liked the article. Thank you for sharing 🙂

It’s refreshing to read an article that defends textspeak and the use of emojis, though I thought there were a couple of missed opportunities. I haven’t read all the other comments so i’m not sure if anything I have to offer has already been said, so if i’m repeating anything I apologize.

I thought the article might have benefited from a stronger background in sociolinguistics, as there were some excellent points which could have been expanded upon to strengthen the article. Linguistic shift is one example, and how sociolects impact linguistic shift. Internet-based sociolects entered common use over a decade ago, but are still thought of as being extremely new because they evolve far, far more quickly than non-internet-based sociolects. Yet this also makes them easier to study from the perspective of corpus linguistics.

That aside, I enjoyed reading this. Thank you for sharing 🙂

I’ve been wondering about how exactly the “sublime” works as both and neither a positive and a negative experience. This article summed it up, while talking about some of my favourite people and books. Thanks a bunch for writing this 🙂

Balanced and articulate. I like that you started with Chesterton, that really helped introduce the paradox of Peter’s choice.

I did want to read a little more about Wendy, and not just about the role she played for Peter but her role in the narrative as a character with choices of her own to make. Otherwise, loved the article. Thank you for sharing.

This is the first thorough and serious investigation of what a troll is that I’ve ever come across. By taking it seriously, in a way you’ve de-fanged a figure that has been granted too much power over emotion and discourse, especially in the last couple of years.

I like the broad approach, including James Veitch, fictional characters and history and mythology. Very interesting and entertaining.