Comments on: analyze this http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/analyze-this News about Alison Bechdel's comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, and her graphic novel Fun Home Sun, 20 May 2012 23:11:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=403 By: b89cb47186ce http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/analyze-this#comment-164221 b89cb47186ce Fri, 09 May 2008 17:00:52 +0000 http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/analyze-this#comment-164221 <strong>b89cb47186ce...</strong> b89cb47186ce2b4327fa... b89cb47186ce…

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]]> By: food lover http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/analyze-this#comment-54241 food lover Sun, 24 Jun 2007 06:01:49 +0000 http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/analyze-this#comment-54241 <strong>food lover</strong> shit-happens 1667343 Reviews on food lover. food lover

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]]> By: Anonymous http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/analyze-this#comment-4215 Anonymous Fri, 15 Sep 2006 23:43:36 +0000 http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/analyze-this#comment-4215 That's pretty typical of the 'chicken or egg' dillema of Psychology. You can do some clever reconstructions of past events, but as a predictive tool it sometimes falls pretty flat. Comparing the corpse with her father's lack of paternal affection? Seems like the reviewer is using Allison's own conclusions in an overly clever manner. Allison's own introspective bent and artistic genius was good enough for me, I don't need anyone else sorting the chaff. I agree with PD. A corpse is a corpse, of course of course. That’s pretty typical of the ‘chicken or egg’ dillema of Psychology. You can do some clever reconstructions of past events, but as a predictive tool it sometimes falls pretty flat. Comparing the corpse with her father’s lack of paternal affection? Seems like the reviewer is using Allison’s own conclusions in an overly clever manner.

Allison’s own introspective bent and artistic genius was good enough for me, I don’t need anyone else sorting the chaff.

I agree with PD. A corpse is a corpse, of course of course.

]]> By: Pam Isherwood http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/analyze-this#comment-4190 Pam Isherwood Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:35:00 +0000 http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/analyze-this#comment-4190 Fun Home has finally (14th Sept) been published officially in the UK, but the publishers - Jonathan Cape - don't seem to realise what they have. It's in paperback only so (a) readers will lose a lot of the pleasure in handling it and (b) it will miss some library sales. And I can't find any reviews on a UK search, the papers should be full of it today. Maybe the weekend papers will have some. The amazing success of the book in the US should surely have alerted them to get behind it the way HMifflen did, and to pay for a big UK tour if AB can bear it (at least the distances here are shorter). Amazon UK are quoting 4 to 6 weeks delivery, which is garbage for a regular UK publisher. What can we do to help? Fun Home has finally (14th Sept) been published officially in the UK, but the publishers – Jonathan Cape – don’t seem to realise what they have. It’s in paperback only so (a) readers will lose a lot of the pleasure in handling it and (b) it will miss some library sales. And I can’t find any reviews on a UK search, the papers should be full of it today. Maybe the weekend papers will have some. The amazing success of the book in the US should surely have alerted them to get behind it the way HMifflen did, and to pay for a big UK tour if AB can bear it (at least the distances here are shorter). Amazon UK are quoting 4 to 6 weeks delivery, which is garbage for a regular UK publisher. What can we do to help?

]]> By: JimmiJon http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/analyze-this#comment-4168 JimmiJon Thu, 14 Sep 2006 22:07:39 +0000 http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/analyze-this#comment-4168 Loved the book. Thank you, Alison, for letting us in on a significantly (non)emotional period of your life. Rock on. Loved the book. Thank you, Alison, for letting us in on a significantly (non)emotional period of your life. Rock on.

]]> By: Emily in LA http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/analyze-this#comment-4113 Emily in LA Wed, 13 Sep 2006 23:47:17 +0000 http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/analyze-this#comment-4113 MC, I rather like "I failed it vividly" because it conjures up the image of you puking all over your shoes, or going into a crying jag, or something similarly physically vivid. MC, I rather like “I failed it vividly” because it conjures up the image of you puking all over your shoes, or going into a crying jag, or something similarly physically vivid.

]]> By: LisaLou http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/analyze-this#comment-4082 LisaLou Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:55:31 +0000 http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/analyze-this#comment-4082 NLC: ha! why not? at least for now... NLC: ha! why not? at least for now…

]]> By: NLC http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/analyze-this#comment-4001 NLC Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:14:15 +0000 http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/analyze-this#comment-4001 So, to resume an earlier discussion, does this mean that we should start using "Bechdelity" as the adjective of choice? [Joking aside, this is a great review. I can only imagine what it must be like to have someone relate in so obviously thoughtful and serious a way to something that you've committed so much work, effort and feeling to.] So, to resume an earlier discussion, does this
mean that we should start using “Bechdelity”
as the adjective of choice?

[Joking aside, this is a great review. I can
only imagine what it must be like to have
someone relate in so obviously thoughtful and
serious a way to something that you've committed
so much work, effort and feeling to.]

]]> By: --MC http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/analyze-this#comment-3994 --MC Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:23:14 +0000 http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/analyze-this#comment-3994 I just like writing vividly. Please revise the last sentence to read "I failed it entirely." I just like writing vividly. Please revise the last sentence to read “I failed it entirely.”

]]> By: --MC http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/analyze-this#comment-3993 --MC Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:18:38 +0000 http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/analyze-this#comment-3993 It fits. Who else would put things over family, who would rather have the simulacrum of a happy family rather than the family itself, than a dad with minus in the interiority? I may have said time and again how I can relate because Bruce Bechdel reminds me of dads I have known, and the mortuary sequence reminded me vividly of the time my own father had me look at a kitten that had been killed and fly-blown. It was some kind of test, and I'm pleased to note that I failed it vividly. It fits. Who else would put things over family, who would rather have the simulacrum of a happy family rather than the family itself, than a dad with minus in the interiority?
I may have said time and again how I can relate because Bruce Bechdel reminds me of dads I have known, and the mortuary sequence reminded me vividly of the time my own father had me look at a kitten that had been killed and fly-blown. It was some kind of test, and I’m pleased to note that I failed it vividly.

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