Evan

#f2irpi7 A1: The mother confused me today. At Morgan's Falls she made me be like Josie, I won't tell Josie this. But the Mother also got angry at me for asking about Sal. I was curious about what happened to her, maybe it is bad for me to be curious. I don't know a lot of things.

#f2irpi6 Helena when the robots she wanted to be able to think and process information on their own, think a little too freely

#f21rpi5 A1: I mean Susan knew that meteorite that destroyed the plane was 100% fate. How? Oh, I guess it was just her feminine intuition. Too bad JN-5 couldn't use a little of that intuition before boarding that plane.

@nowakvfiction @excelsior373 Yeah, like changing the setting of The Stepford Wives to the of the Veldt completely changes the whole story. I mean, I guess there is no need for a robot housewife if your house is always spotless

@excelsior373 Seriously though, what would Stepford wives do if they had a smart home? Just sit and do literally nothing all day?

#f2irpi4 A1: when you've let your house become a better cook, cleaner, and parent than you, and then it pulls out the Your-Existence-Is-Now-In-My-Hands tap dance.

#f2irpi4 A1: Hey, I mean I get not wanting a house that will literally conjure lions at your psychotic kid's requests that will eat you alive, spit on your grave, and proceed to tap dance over your mangled corpse, but only $30K? For a fully automatic smart house? Where do I sign?

@vickierpi True, and for those Stepford husbands to play it off as if they're too dumb to reprogram their wives, smh. They were just secretly mad that a woman nearly foiled their plot. RIP the real Joanna

#f2irpi3 A1 some of yall don’t want to admit some men (@ stepford husbands and trifle husbands) claim to respect women but kill them metaphorically and/or physically.

#f2irpi3 A1 Women are really seen as the beef Rachel put in the trifle. Some men don't like it so they make a whole new trifle without the beef (free will). While some try to take the beef out and are supposedly hanged in their sleep.

@Rhodesch435 I was thinking the exact same thing. While important to connect to Medusa and Clinton, there is way less autonomy going on in the coin-operated boy. Marionette theatre is a great connection to make here.

I think it's also interesting to relate the song to The marionette theatre. I thought of the boy as an actual coin operated doll, incapable of emotion. I think that's the difference between this and Medusa or Clinton. Everyone involved had feelings and intentions, unlike the boy.

#f2irpi2b A2: I think the best connection I can make between the song and the text would be between the relationships of the protagonists of each. This is the classic controller/controlled dynamic. Controller loses control, becomes angry, controlled is punished somehow.

@c_jimmyy Yeah, I mean essentially Medusa was just a slave to a higher power. She has nowhere to escape to and living out a life that hurt others whether she really wanted to or not. The coin-operated boy does have less autonomy though seeing as he can't do anything on his own.

#f2irpi2b The song "Coin Operated Boy" connects to the Curse of Medusa text in a way that the Boy is like Medusa, controlled and serving someone. Medusa was now allowed to be in love with anyone when she was serving Athena, and the boy was only allowed to love the narrator.

@Jordon13771414 Yeah I agree. You can definitely seem how a simple image like this makes such an eerie feeling, just like the Griffin picture. Both of them have a look on their face that is less than pleasant, but I think it really does it job to explain the nuance of both situations.

#f2irpi2a The emotionalist look on the woman's face reminds me of the image of Kathy Griffin holding trumps head. The biggest reasons that these types of pictures and gifs are seen as sinister is the contrast of emotionlessness in serious situations. Her expression is unsettling

@Adam13300941 I really like your interpretation here. Rather than relating the woman in the gif to Medusa's victims, I like the idea that maybe it represents Medusa's beauty. This somewhat even driving her to go after her victims. Really interesting view.

#f2irpi2a The woman in the video could be associated with Medusa, and the lamp switching off could represent her beauty vanishing when she angered Athena.

#f2irpi2b A2: The song offers a strong reinforcement of the ideas that Beard expressed. While it may be true that women have been historically silenced, a song like this creates the opposite sentiment. The woman silences the boy. She has absolute control over everything about him

#f2irpi2a A1: This GIF relates to Hillary Clinton's situation. She shed light on the hypocrisy of many people who let the Clinton-Medusa connection slide but were against Griffin's view on it. This metaphorically turned Griffin into a workless stone statue for a bit of her career

#f2irpi1 A1: Hi everyone. My name is Evan and I'm from Long Island, New York. Something memorable about me is that I can juggle.