She who Haunts my Dreams

In Defense of Pandora

Sun, 12 May 2013 14:21:59 GMT

It occurs to me that Pandora gets a bad rap.

Her story is used as example of the dangers of curiosity. Or worse, as misogynistic tale of the problems that result when you leave women on their own without supervision.

So we get:

"Pandora's curiosity got the better of her and she opened a box. Bad things happened."

This leaves out the bit at the end about hope. And I think that should be regarded as the important part.

"Pandora dared the unknown and in doing so, brought hope to the world."

Pandora shouldn't be held up as a cautionary tale, she should be held up as an example. An explorer, or a scientist even.

Of course, this is dependent on the debatable point of 'hope' outweighing 'all the evils of the world.'

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I have made it to Dreamwidth

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 02:18:37 GMT

I have now set up a Dreamwidth account. This message should be cross posted.

If that works, the next thing to figure out will be following all those people who switched to dreamwidth and haven't been cross-posting.

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Annexation

Sat, 27 Oct 2012 01:46:33 GMT

I hereby declare this digital territory to be within my dominion, in a silly, and/or metaphorical, non-legally binding, fashion.

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