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Early on in University, us young bucks figured out that full length lecture podiums were designed for two purposes- to shield particularly young male professors from potentially embarrassing extensions - while lecturing and simultaneously fawning(!) over x, y or z, and/or to provide female profs protection from overly aggressive male & possibly female gazing. One of my friends called these podiums, particularly for men, the "academic's jock strap." No telling what poetry, let alone other subjects, might do to folks to take them off subject! Oh well, here in North America, Bush and all be damned, welcome spring and "displays" (male, female, transexual) wherever they be found. There is nothing sexier these days in this neighborhood than these big gold and lavender irises and, sweetly enough, they don't bother me none for enjoying them - that old gaze again - to the max. Stephen http://stephenvincent.net/blog/ Still home, & you're invited, to the ever growing "Tenderly" series. New blog site / same archives! > A woman poet once told me she'd noticed that the male of the species, when > giving a reading, assumed a stance with the pelvis thrust forward. Only she > put it a little less delicately. I've been observing since, and some of them > definitely do. > > joanna > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 10:12 PM > Subject: Re: Poetry as Male Display > > >> The male poet's courtship display: we lift our tail feathers, puff out our >> chests and circle the female poet, who expresses interest by feigning >> confusion and attempting to run for the exit. Courtship success rate is so >> low that the species is constantly threatened with extinction. >> >> >> At 04:51 PM 5/5/2006, you wrote: >>>> She's plain wrong. But where would be the hermeneutic fun in that? I'd >>>> point >>>> to what Walter Ong has to say about the feminisation of discourse in the >>>> early-modern period [in Orality & Literacy]. It may not be on display, >>>> but >>>> it is pretty fundamental in its importance. >>> >>> >>> I'm so glad you said that - whoever you are?! >>> >>> 'She's plain wrong' >>> >>> Lovely. >>> >>> Tina >>