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* "Travels with Aunt Paula" by Estragon (female dominance)
10, 10, 10
* "Travels with Aunt Paula" by Estragon. Paula is the guardian for her ten- year-old nephew, the child of her deceased sister. Since she generally requires Cal to appear naked in her presence, we might suspect that she is a dirty old woman. Not true! Paula's every desire toward Cal is indeed maternal, even her long-established insistence on his naked humility. It is all for his own good. She has always known in her heart that a worshipful man is a happy man; and an adored and well-served woman is happier still. All she wants for her sweet nephew is as much happiness as a life of early sorrow can still afford. We learn several important Hidden Truths from the Feminist Catechism - a few things that make one go "Hmmmm." For example, why does it feel good for a boy to have his penis become hard? Answer: Because the erection shows that the nearby female has power over him, and it's good to be honest and respectful in that way. We also witness a detailed description of circumcision - that sacrament (best conferred when young girls are holding the boy's legs apart) which is designed to humiliate and shame a young boy and to enable him to find his place in the world designed for women. After his circumcision, young Cal became popular with the local girls, many of whom had been present at his gala circumcision and who had told their friends that here was a lad who was willing to become obediently naked for instructional or conversational purposes. They could ask him questions about his boy things and even touch them if they wanted. His aunt didn't mind at all, and nobody even knew whether he did. Nobody asked him. Nobody really cared. The girls who heard all this said it was incredible but they'd believe it when they saw it. Cal had many visitors. The censors might be suspicious of this story - thinking, for example, that there is something unseemly in the idea of an 11-year-old girl gazing at and touching the newly circumcised penis of a 6-year-old boy. That would be the perception of a person with a filthy mind; most readers of this story will easily see that this is simply an example of a lower-order member of the species offering his genitalia as an educational tool for a young member of the Super Race. For, as every British schoolgirl knows (with apologies to Thomas Babington Macaulay), "The battle of the sexes is lost before it even begins. Ladies just happen to enjoy being reminded of this fact." Like most of Estragon's writing, this story is a fictionalized version of a feminist philosophical tract. Some readers will find the ideas a bit exaggerated or even bizarre. "Who could ever believe crap like this?" they'll say. Well, my old Aunt Emma, for one. I escaped from her clutches long ago (I think). She's dead now and can no longer reach me (I hope). But she had these weird ideas about religion that ran exactly parallel to Aunt Paula's sexual theories. Aunt Emma's books did not emphasize physical circumcision or sexual humiliation - just spiritual versions of the same themes. I haven't looked at the "Imitation of Christ" lately - and I doubt that it's high on the reading list of most a.s.s. readers - but my recollection is that it seriously argues that humans become more perfect by becoming better slaves of God. My point is that if otherwise sensible people have been known to apply this dominance/slavery theory to the relationship between God and humankind, it should hardly be surprising to see it applied to the relationship between men and women. Estragon writes extremely well, and this is another good story. Every time I sit down at my computer to review one of Estragon's stories, I say to myself, "This female dominance stuff is nonsense. I want men to be my equals, not my slaves." Then, as I read the outlandish but interesting events in the story, I find myself realizing that there's a huge kernel of truth behind what Estragon is saying. Ratings for "Travels with Aunt Paula" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 10 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10 |