{"id":2672,"date":"2023-10-29T23:57:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T03:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/?p=2672"},"modified":"2023-12-04T01:49:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T06:49:09","slug":"weird-science-sadly-not-the-1985-film-or-the-banger-put-out-by-the-band-oingo-boingo-great-fucking-band-name-by-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/2023\/10\/29\/weird-science-sadly-not-the-1985-film-or-the-banger-put-out-by-the-band-oingo-boingo-great-fucking-band-name-by-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Weird Science (Sadly Not the 1985 Film or the Banger Put Out by the Band Oingo Boingo (Great Fucking Band Name by the Way))"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Dear Reader,

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I’m back on my shit again.

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The Gothic horror genre is rife with weird science due to The Age of Energy and Invention. The post-partum depression of Lady Audly’s mother gets her sent to a mental hospital. The strange mechanical workings of The Terribly Strange Bed<\/em>. The phrenology in The Hound of the Baskervilles<\/em> where Arthur Conan Doyle uses science to both explain and emphasize the intelligence of our hero Sherlock Holmes. Bram Stoker does something similar with Mina Harker.

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Van Helsing, a medical man and a professor of high reputation, sings the praises of Mina Harker in a really fucking weird way, “Ah, that wonderful Madam Mina!…and not so long married;” (Chapter XVIII)<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The suggestion from a doctor that women and men have significantly different organs is wild! This is obviously catering to gender standards, the caring and yet weak heart of a woman as opposed to the intelligent and calculating brain of a man.<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0This also speaks explicitly to our point in class about men being responsible for protecting women. \u201cA brave man\u2019s blood is the best thing on this earth when a woman is in trouble….we want them.\u201d (Chapter XII) The gendering of organs can also be seen here.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Now, I know what you’re thinking, “Red. You’ve done an excellent job of identifying something interesting, revealing, or strange, and you’ve looked sexy while doing it, but, not to be an asshole, so what?” Thank you reader; I did something new with my hair and I’m glad that you like it. To your question though, “So what?”<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The idea that men are scientifically engineered, and shaped by God, to protect women is a pervasive one throughout this story and made explicit in the quotes that I have selected. “So what?” Bram Stoker uses science and an appeal to religion to justify his sexist and ridiculous “damsel in distress” in a way that is dangerous and harmful.<\/p>\r\n

Yours sleeping upsidedown like a bat,<\/p>\r\n

Carmine “Red” Zingiber<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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