Meryl ([info]cassius614) wrote,
@ 2007-02-20 22:14:00
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Current mood: contemplative

It Truly is Daunting
I saw Spring Awakening with my family this weekend, and to be honest I fully expected to hate it. I wasn't a huge fan of the music from listening to it (correction: I loved the music, wasn't so hot on the lyrics). I LOVED the story, the characters, really everything. It was amazing. An experience. See it. Good lord, see it. The German names alone are worth it. Seriously. Do it. You know you want to.

Anyway. I've officially FINISHED watching a 40-episode anime called "Rose of Versailles", which is historical fiction, set in late ancien regime France. Is this not so up my alley it's ridiculous? The main character is this perfectly androgynous girl who was raised as a guy by her father because he wanted a son, but it gets better from there. I actually really identify with the protagonist (how awful is that? I'm losing my mind), because I feel like I'm my own man. I really am! It's not that I haven't liked guys, it's just that I never want to depend on one of them. Just like this character. She's a sexless entity, really, someone who exists outside the arena of passion. When she faces it, she just becomes more intent on being her own person, and not falling in deeper than she is. I really need to get to college where the guys have major... cojones. Because this lack of plausible relationship material is causing my sanity to suffer, and I'm feeling solidarity with an anime character.

Ha! It's all good! But seriously. When you're feeling like the protagonist of your own romance-less story, (the "Rose of Versailles" char waits until she's in her early 30s to act on love) things feel bizarre.

See Spring Awakening!

~M. :-)


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[info]axls_rose
2007-02-21 04:34 am UTC (link)
ohhh I really...really want to see Spring Awakening!

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[info]stuck_in_ma
2007-02-21 12:05 pm UTC (link)
You're counting on college to have mature guys? Good luck.

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[info]bohorseok
2007-02-21 06:13 pm UTC (link)
But being feminine doesn't have to mean depending on guys. I love being a girl, and yet if any male (or female, actually) tells me how to act, they are gone. I don't take that well.
Even in marriage, the woman doesn't have to depend on the man. I can't see my mom, who's a pretty strong and independent person, relying on my dad any more than he relies on her. Mutuality is what makes a [i]good[/i] relationship, instead of one filled with pretense.

But seconded on the wanting to get to college for the boys. I don't care if they're more mature or not, as long as there are more decent human beings among them than there are among those at Schechter. This goes for the girls as well.

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[info]anyoneeb
2007-02-21 08:33 pm UTC (link)
*posts just to emphasize agreement with parent post*

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[info]cassius614
2007-02-22 03:11 am UTC (link)
I don't mean that the man has to definitively "wear the pants" as it were - it's just that being in a relationship, the whole idea of it, has been tainted by the idea of really "needing" someone, particularly in the "female" sense of it. It's hard to explain. But I get what you're saying.

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[info]bohorseok
2007-02-22 04:47 pm UTC (link)
I don't see myself as "needing" a boyfriend particularly--I'm fine without one. I see a relationship as something nice to have, which can be relied on like any other friendship, but with the extra dimension of sexuality thrown in. Just because you have a boyfriend doesn't mean he's the only one you can rely on/"need" (which is good as most boys don't want to hear about your menstrual cramps). Don't you "need" your friends as well? Don't boys "need their friends as well? Face it, we live in never-ending social bondage, and it's not a bad thing.

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[info]anyoneeb
2007-02-21 08:30 pm UTC (link)

Darn you, my animes-to-see list is long enough already with just recommendations from my brother. :-p

I am going to have to agree with [info]stuck_in_ma here. It seems like, at least at Cornell, a large portion of the social scene is people getting drunk. Obviously you will find mature guys at college (at least at Cornell ;) - Law of large numbers and all - but, well, it will take some work to find them.

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