Glass irony and god5/21/2023 We will find the ancients continlially at pains to associate these two aspects under a general rubric of gender. The poet Aristophanes puts a comic turn on this cliche in his Ekklesiazousai: as the women of Athens are about to infiltrate the Athenian assemblyĪnd take over political process, the feminist leader Praxagora reasures her fellow female activists that they have precisely the right kind of voices for this task.īecause, as she says, "You know that among the young men the ones who turn out to be terrific talkers are the ones who get fucked a lot." This joke depends on a collapsing together of two different aspects of sound production, quality of voice and use of voice. Aristotle tells us that the highpitched voice of the female is one evidence of her evil disposition, for creatures who are brave or just (like lions, bulls, roosters and the human male) have large deep voices.(1) If you hear a man talking in a gentle or highpitched voice you know he is a kinaidos (''catamite'').(2) These judgments happen fast and can be brutal. It is in large part according to the sounds people make that we judge them sane or insane, male or female, good evil, trustworthy, depressive, marriageable, moribund, likely or unlikely to make war on us, little better than animals, inspired by God.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |