Dissecting Worlds 4-3 Fantasy & Fairy Tales, Paternity & Princesses

Joined by Clover from our sibling cast "Scrolls", the dithering duo turn their gaze on the gender, sex and relationships in that double-headed genre hydra that is Fantasy and Fairy Tales. Along the dark paths far from those we know, we encounter:

• Disney Princesses
• Kehaars's younger, death-metal listening self
• Are Soap Operas todays fairy tales?
• Strong Characters vs Strong Characterisation
• Game of Thrones, The Silmarrilion and Tolkien's Ladies, and women in Fantasy Cover Art
• Same-sex relationships in fantasy and history.
• Jarvis Cocker's attitude to pornography
• And because it's been a while....Roman attitudes to sex.

Wikipedia's article on the Monomyth is far more erudite than Matt and can be found here; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MonomythMore of Clover can be heard on Scrolls, here http://geeksyndicate.wordpress.com/category/gs-podcast-network/scrolls/

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Kehaar’s game related musings can be found here http://clarkythecruel.wordpress.com/ and his current RPG campaign here http://alfiesantics.wordpress.com/ Matt’s literary reviews are on the Geek Syndicate site (http://www.geeksyndicate.co.uk/) under the Tolkien Gestures column.