haha I seem to be posting more these days-- the last couple of entries came within 3 days of each other! (I hope) I have more to say today than before.

First things first: go buy The Graveyard Book, the latest by Neil Gaiman. Just found out that it's available in kino -.- so go get it! It's supposed to be really prominent and they put it up and things. Plus try listening to danse macabre before/ while reading it-- yeah it's that kind of book.

Oh yes and if someone finds Let it Snow by JOHN GREEN, Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle, please please tell me, because I figured the only way I can get it now is through amazon... and I don't have the financial means at the moment. For those who aren't nerdfighters, John Green is this really awesome YA writer who did Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, and Paper Towns. (that just came out/ is coming out)

Speaking of coming out, last saturday, the 11th of october, was National Coming Out Day in the states. tyleroakley on youtube and italktosnakes did very funny videos on it, so go forth! (right no pun intended.)

Today I am not very bothered to write anything um remotely fresh, so let's pick up something from the stale bread bin!

On [Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?]:
In most SF novels, I've always noticed that the female is ALWAYS the object of lust, not the male. Even when the narrator is female, they don't objectify the male, but the female. Lust and the promise of it has always been a recurring theme in SF novels, even good ones, so I don't blame Philip K. Dick or Orson Scott Card for that. It's just that the male protagonist always sleeps with the hot female, and the hot female is always the forbidden fruit or the irresistible bait.

Why can't males be hot instead? In today's society, it is entirely not justifiable for only females to be objectified and used as an object of temptation. This only propagates the idea that females are only to be utilised as tools for pleasure, and they are not worthy of being anything else. It is only recently that females have been sufficiently empowered of proper characterisation -- Un Lun Dun by China Mieville and Philip Pullman have great examples of female protagonists.

This is coming from a humanist to boot.