Aug. 11th, 2008
The modern frontier
Aug. 11th, 2008 10:53 pm(
smillaraaq made me this Sanzo icon! So tiny and fierce.)
I've been link-hopping through
ibarw links tonight and was reading
veejane's series on the American frontier and how the glorification of the Wild West in American pop culture tends to leave out a very large, and not especially complimentary, chunk of the story, as well as this post in
cofax's LJ about removal of Native artifacts. I started to write out the following as a comment to this post of veejane's on varying definitions of "rape" on the frontier, but realized that it was totally off topic and would better belong in my own journal as its own post.
( Cut for not especially happy content )
I've been link-hopping through
( Cut for not especially happy content )
The modern frontier
Aug. 11th, 2008 10:53 pm(
smillaraaq made me this Sanzo icon! So tiny and fierce.)
I've been link-hopping through
ibarw links tonight and was reading
veejane's series on the American frontier and how the glorification of the Wild West in American pop culture tends to leave out a very large, and not especially complimentary, chunk of the story, as well as this post in
cofax's LJ about removal of Native artifacts. I started to write out the following as a comment to this post of veejane's on varying definitions of "rape" on the frontier, but realized that it was totally off topic and would better belong in my own journal as its own post.
( Cut for not especially happy content )
I've been link-hopping through
( Cut for not especially happy content )