tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312769118261745865.post8217272008343944502..comments2024-03-27T18:02:50.235-04:00Comments on Lilia Ford: Readings From the Dark Side: On Teaching Smut: A Review of Out of the Woods/Twice Caught, by Syd McGinley. Lilia Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04663935138935805768noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312769118261745865.post-13979866222654030442014-03-30T13:23:16.510-04:002014-03-30T13:23:16.510-04:00I love it! I started writing up this whole "p...I love it! I started writing up this whole "prequel" about what happened when the disaster hit. Basically it starts at an all- male military academy. The small group of female teachers, including science and social studies teachers and some female faculty children, realize how vulnerable they will be so heavily outnumbered, so they set things up keeping males and females separate. And then there's a bit about how the male arms instructor forms one community with half the boys, and the male art teacher forms another community with the other half, and they develop accordingly, with the female teachers, the Mothers, trying to support each as best they can without going in and just taking over completely. Every now and then I still get insomnia obsessing over whether they should have done more to save Ufer or whether the community truly had to make these mistakes in order to grow. Some of the best classes I ever taught revolved around debating a question like this, where there's no right answer, but a lot of strong opinions. Lilia Fordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04663935138935805768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312769118261745865.post-15131094311309076032014-03-28T04:59:52.753-04:002014-03-28T04:59:52.753-04:00Damn. Sorry, I tried to hide the spoilers but it ...Damn. Sorry, I tried to hide the spoilers but it didn't take.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312769118261745865.post-5041280619097346502014-03-28T04:58:01.017-04:002014-03-28T04:58:01.017-04:00This is Yblees from Goodreads: My theory about th...This is Yblees from Goodreads: My theory about the "Mothers" is that in this post-apocalyptic society, it is the SOP for setting up a new community - one that has different social rules from any existing communities.<br /> Mindwipe the founders, set them up in a restricted but resource rich area (library, existing shelter buildings, source of food), and let them organise themselves. The Mother community supplies the children that will populate the community, so they have a stake. They provide resources (food, restricted development tools, medicine) during the setup phase, and they intervene in a limited way to restrict the excessive and dysfunctional social rules.<br /><br />In other words, this is an experimental community in early-start phase, with a possibility of catastrophic failure. And it could maybe earn the right later on to be integrated into the rest of the world.<br />Sum of about a week of solid thinking!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com