{"id":18754,"date":"2010-11-20T01:31:27","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T06:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=18754"},"modified":"2010-11-20T01:31:27","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T06:31:27","slug":"video-of-the-day-rocking-the-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/11\/20\/video-of-the-day-rocking-the-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Video of the Day: Rocking the Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mc9eHI3ieQk<\/p>\n<p>The Young Socialists of Catalonia in Spain have produced this video to encourage people to vote in upcoming regional elections.\u00a0 It&#8217;s caused a bit of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-11797436\" target=\"_blank\">stir<\/a>, but most people (politicians excluded) don&#8217;t seem to have much trouble with it.<\/p>\n<p>According to Frye, sex is of course a primary concern, and the right to vote is the peak experience of citizenship, so it seems natural enough that they come together at some point.\u00a0 Maybe this is it.\u00a0 Frye in conversation with David Cayley:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Then you get the other account [of creation] in chapter 2 [of Genesis], which begins with a garden and deals with animals as domestic pets.\u00a0 The imagery is oasis imagery.\u00a0 It&#8217;s all gardens and rivers.\u00a0 And the emphasis is heavily on the distinctness of the human order.\u00a0 First you get Adam, then you get Eve as the climax of that account of creation.\u00a0 Obviously, that describes a state of being in which man and his environment are in complete harmony.\u00a0 Then comes the fall, which is first of all self-consciousness about sex, or what D.H. Lawrence calls &#8220;sex in the head.&#8221;\u00a0 That really pollutes the whole conception of sexuality and thereby pollutes in the same way the relation of the human mind to its environment.\u00a0 (<em>CW<\/em> 24, 1023)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not to be a total jag about this, but there is something deeply satisfying about seeing a woman depicted as having an orgasm while voting: it eagerly embraces both liberated female sexuality and gender equality.\u00a0 As Frye notes, if, according to Judeo-Christian myth, humanity fell by way of a woman, then it will rise again as one.\u00a0 Why shouldn&#8217;t something like this be winkingly suggestive of that?\u00a0 Traditionally, nothing about sex is more threatening than female sexuality, which has always been about sexual shame generally and female subordination specifically.\u00a0 This sort of thing fully exposes the fact that some people (including young socialists) are well past that.\u00a0 Woman is after all, Frye suggests, the climax of creation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mc9eHI3ieQk The Young Socialists of Catalonia in Spain have produced this video to encourage people to vote in upcoming regional elections.\u00a0 It&#8217;s caused a bit of a stir, but most people (politicians excluded) don&#8217;t seem to have much trouble with it. 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