...be sure. None the less, you can still have Joan toss away a good deal of her feminimity for ... not to the extent of what they went with. Joan never pretended to be a man or boy and ...that do with Saber as Arthur. I realize another problem with Joan. If Saber was Joan of Arc some vigorous hand-waiving would need to be done to get rid of Joan's intense religiosity and I think vow of chasity...

... could have made that character Joan of Arc. The reason they didn't..., King Arthur rather than Joan of Arc was to stimulate certain male...not really work for Joan of Arc because Joan was always acknowledged as...the less, you can still have Joan toss away a good deal of...extent of what they went with. Joan never pretended to be a man... done to get rid of Joan's intense religiosity and I ...

... -0700 (PDT), Lee Ratner They could have made that character Joan of Arc. The reason they didn't was ... Sabre, King Arthur rather than Joan of Arc was to stimulate certain male fantasies,...'s feminine, loving qualities. This would not really work for Joan of Arc because Joan was always acknowledged as a...None the less, you can still have Joan toss away a good deal of her...

...>justified with the worse faux-feminism. They could have made that character Joan of Arc.  The reason they didn't was not ... made Sabre, King Arthur rather than Joan of Arc was to stimulate certain male fantasies, mainly of the ice queen variety...that woman's feminine, loving qualities. This would not really work for Joan of Arc because Joan was always acknowledged as a woman...

.../Stay Night, that is really bad. Not only was the change only made for fan-service purposes, it was justified with the worse faux-feminism. They could have made that character Joan of Arc. The reason they didn't was not for fan service but to throw in a twist.

... not to use one of the myriad of heroines from Western mythology. A really stupid choice IMO. =20 =20 My first guess was Joan of Arc myself. They couldn't get Jeanne d'Arc - she's too busy "stealing" demonically-possessed artwork. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=362 <sigh>...

... reason they decided not to use one of the myriad of heroines from Western mythology. A really stupid choice IMO. My first guess was Joan of Arc myself. Like I said, it was non-Arthur enough for me not to make the connection. Or I didn't get far enough in the show (always ...

... into a right wing politico-religious movement. The pistol-packing Sarah Palin is the party's new housewife saint, a cross between Annie Oakley and Joan of Arc. Two factors led McCain to his dramatic decision. First, 53%% of American voters are women. The choice of Palin clearly was an attempt to...

... gay magazine [1977]. Leslie Feinberg [1949- ], American trade unionist, transgender activist and author [Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to RuPaul]. Allan Ginsburg - late Jewish poet and leading member of North American Man Boy Love Association I had never compared ...

...> preceding but one during its pathologization. Socrates (Smith posits that the voices the philosopher heard affected his sentencing to death), Joan of Arc, and a German jurist who largely recovered from schizophrenic voice hearing are the three figures about whom Smith writes so ...