In Maus II an Israeli (a mouse) asks Spiegelman what animal he would use to depict Israelis.
Poles were pigs, Americans were dogs, Nazis were cats, Jews were mice, French were frogs, and so forth.
Spiegelman replies that he would use "a porcupine?"
This made me smile, because there is a stereotype of Israelis being like sabras. A sabra is prickly on the outside, but juicy and sweet on the inside. I've met at least a handful of Israelis myself, and I don't think this applies to all Israelis. While stereotypes are often based on truth, there are always some people who don't fit them... and some people who fit them perfectly.
Anyway, to use a porcupine is like a pun on the sabra stereotype.
Just now, my boyfriend's room mmate was eating Nerds candy and gave me the empty box, saying, "feed your imagination." It was EMPTY. What kind of guy is this? Hard to say.
"Do I look like a garbage?" I asked him. You know what he said? He said, "Well, I figured you're more... adept... at cleaning up messes." Implied: because you're a woman.
Frustrated, I continued blogging. This is perfect, I thought, I'm writing about stereotypes right now! What about spic and span men, though? There are definitely at least a couple guys that are much cleaner than me. Why are women so targeted in modern society? Better yet, why have women been targeted throughout history?
Well you make me sound awful. I was being satirical. and I think that has to be a point made here is a lot of close minded rhetoric serves as wonderful fodder for satire. Also I didn't think you were actually going to be putting me in your blog. Woman haven't been targeted throughout history a lot of tribal societies are matriarchal. Other then that it comes down to primitive instinct woman are weaker, they need protecting therefore men ought to take the lead. That is the most basic boiling down of the history of ancient woman's roles mind you I don't want to open a can of worms by saying it extends across space and time that is just the classical reasoning behind it.
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