I’m feeling a bit ill today, and not up to much in the way of, like, thinking and writing loads, so tonight I will simply show you my favourite ever animation, “The Dot and the Line”…
I did have a whole heap of gender symbolism stuff to go with this, but it’s probably is old hat anyway, and my head hurts. I’ll just do a really short summary of my Big Idea and then slump on the couch and fall asleep!
What I was going to argue was that in archetypal structures (things like divination methods – the I Ching and the Tarot are my favourites) the division of male and female can even go right down to such basic mathematical concepts as lines, and dots. This cartoon (ether consciously or unconsciously) reinforces the same gender association. And that, dear readers, is my only justification for posting it on a feminist weblog!