Yay! that was a great tale. Ah, good old times of discovering the mysteries of Potterverse, and feeling how your House calls for you, for the first time...
From my rare visits to Twitter zoo, it appears that the serpent always has plenty of prey, and has been feeding very well :)
Hmm, thanks to the most popular fairy tale, a serpent is firmly associated with Satan, who is traditionally masculine. I just thought it's very unimaginative that both of this mythology's main characters are male. It would've been much more exciting and fitting to make Satan a female. With all this talk of temptation, which women are supposed to excel at, not to mention evil... It would make such a proper reason for patriarchy and gender discrimination, as well as for the virtue of following the Lord's ways, because what self-respecting man would want to be controlled by a female Satan? ;)
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Date: 2020-05-23 09:57 am (UTC)From my rare visits to Twitter zoo, it appears that the serpent always has plenty of prey, and has been feeding very well :)
Hmm, thanks to the most popular fairy tale, a serpent is firmly associated with Satan, who is traditionally masculine. I just thought it's very unimaginative that both of this mythology's main characters are male. It would've been much more exciting and fitting to make Satan a female. With all this talk of temptation, which women are supposed to excel at, not to mention evil... It would make such a proper reason for patriarchy and gender discrimination, as well as for the virtue of following the Lord's ways, because what self-respecting man would want to be controlled by a female Satan? ;)