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In my YouTube recommendations after the previous post, I found this which I really like too.
Again, just not over how feminine and passive aggressive (not that I'm saying those two are the same thing) a display of power the idea of this feels to be to me:
I guess I should elaborate that I do not think being feminine and being passive aggressive are synonymous at all or that I endorse passive aggression somehow. But I guess coming at it from the perspective of living with patriarchal norms of 250 years ago or even just now that the notion of exercising power by depriving or removing or drawing away does seem to be a sort of feminine thing, even if it is adaptive, and I find it empowering to think that even a shy or reserved person has power in this sort of thing.
There is that one line about "how you look at my sister," and the thing is that during the time when this play had an active fandom I saw on tumblr, a lot of my more poly-open-minded friends and I sort of said that the original recording almost seems like she kind of... knows... but doesn't mind because she, like, knows what's up. She knows where the lines are. And I guess that that is the difference in what I think infidelity is versus what being human is, whether you are in an open or poly relationship or are monogamous. Again, Eliza actively wants him to spend time around the family even when Angelica comes to visit with them. She trusts... whatever chemistry they have and doesn't anticipate it hurting her, and his refusal to deal with the known variable presents the unknown that he isn't prepared to deal with or resist. ANYWAY I don't really care to go on and on about it since I have never really quite gotten to a point where I directly contribute to this fandom, but I do think that it is very good theatrical writing. And because of that I'm sure that the lines in the songs can be presented and interpreted many different ways.
I once saw a great production of Julius Caesar at my university where Cassius was a woman and she and Antony were lovers. Which, y'know, slightly heteronormative but also putting a woman in the play and I shipped it for a couple of days. I'm not complaining.
Again, just not over how feminine and passive aggressive (not that I'm saying those two are the same thing) a display of power the idea of this feels to be to me:
I guess I should elaborate that I do not think being feminine and being passive aggressive are synonymous at all or that I endorse passive aggression somehow. But I guess coming at it from the perspective of living with patriarchal norms of 250 years ago or even just now that the notion of exercising power by depriving or removing or drawing away does seem to be a sort of feminine thing, even if it is adaptive, and I find it empowering to think that even a shy or reserved person has power in this sort of thing.
There is that one line about "how you look at my sister," and the thing is that during the time when this play had an active fandom I saw on tumblr, a lot of my more poly-open-minded friends and I sort of said that the original recording almost seems like she kind of... knows... but doesn't mind because she, like, knows what's up. She knows where the lines are. And I guess that that is the difference in what I think infidelity is versus what being human is, whether you are in an open or poly relationship or are monogamous. Again, Eliza actively wants him to spend time around the family even when Angelica comes to visit with them. She trusts... whatever chemistry they have and doesn't anticipate it hurting her, and his refusal to deal with the known variable presents the unknown that he isn't prepared to deal with or resist. ANYWAY I don't really care to go on and on about it since I have never really quite gotten to a point where I directly contribute to this fandom, but I do think that it is very good theatrical writing. And because of that I'm sure that the lines in the songs can be presented and interpreted many different ways.
I once saw a great production of Julius Caesar at my university where Cassius was a woman and she and Antony were lovers. Which, y'know, slightly heteronormative but also putting a woman in the play and I shipped it for a couple of days. I'm not complaining.
