Comments on: Not Narnia http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2006/01/21/not-narnia/ helen boyd's journal of gender & trans issues Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:17:33 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: belledame222 http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2006/01/21/not-narnia/comment-page-1/#comment-480 belledame222 Tue, 28 Feb 2006 21:01:20 +0000 http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/?p=615#comment-480 >The scene I was most pleased they left in - and most feared they would leave out - is the scene where Prof. Digory Kirke hoists Susan and Peter on their own illogical petard. If Lucy is generally truthful, and known not to be mad, then, he asserts: she must be telling the truth. >Imagine if the Christian viewers of Narnia heard that in respect to, say, homosexuality. Excellent point. There is also this: people who tend to dismiss any expression of spirituality at all with that sort of either/or proposition do so because, like their fundamentalist counterparts, they believe that it's either objectively "real" for everyone or it's not "real" at all. The notion of subjective reality (as opposed to "it's all in your head and therefore not real or at least worth discussing)") doesn't factor. For me, spirituality and sexuality are inexplicably intertwined, precisely because they're both so incredibly...*inner.* You really can't define it for anyone else, and no one else should be able to to tell you what yours is. >The scene I was most pleased they left in – and most feared they would leave out – is the scene where Prof. Digory Kirke hoists Susan and Peter on their own illogical petard. If Lucy is generally truthful, and known not to be mad, then, he asserts: she must be telling the truth.

>Imagine if the Christian viewers of Narnia heard that in respect to, say, homosexuality.

Excellent point.

There is also this: people who tend to dismiss any expression of spirituality at all with that sort of either/or proposition do so because, like their fundamentalist counterparts, they believe that it’s either objectively “real” for everyone or it’s not “real” at all. The notion of subjective reality (as opposed to “it’s all in your head and therefore not real or at least worth discussing)”) doesn’t factor.

For me, spirituality and sexuality are inexplicably intertwined, precisely because they’re both so incredibly…*inner.* You really can’t define it for anyone else, and no one else should be able to to tell you what yours is.

]]> By: Phoebe http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2006/01/21/not-narnia/comment-page-1/#comment-364 Phoebe Sun, 22 Jan 2006 18:17:46 +0000 http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/?p=615#comment-364 "While it seems like the Narnia books might fulfill some dream of good propaganda by the Christian Right, a good book is never so predictable. As with any other good book, using it as propaganda will backfire; the real truth of a good story will have its day. After all, it’s not a tame book." True, that. You start teaching people about love, forgiveness, and redemption, and there's no telling where it stops. Wonderful column. “While it seems like the Narnia books might fulfill some dream of good propaganda by the Christian Right, a good book is never so predictable. As with any other good book, using it as propaganda will backfire; the real truth of a good story will have its day. After all, it’s not a tame book.”

True, that. You start teaching people about love, forgiveness, and redemption, and there’s no telling where it stops. Wonderful column.

]]> By: SavoyTruffle http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2006/01/21/not-narnia/comment-page-1/#comment-363 SavoyTruffle Sun, 22 Jan 2006 01:48:03 +0000 http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/?p=615#comment-363 well written, Helen. Nicely done. well written, Helen. Nicely done.

]]>