IDEK what she did at college, because it's clearly not getting drunk or higher learning. Or both, as there were a couple of times when I got drunk in my lunch break and then turned up to prac where I'd get to handle dangerous chemicals.
There's talk in...Blue Moon, I think? About Richard going off to study trolls with his new girlfriend and Anita's musing about how she wanted to be a Jane Goodall for this sort of thing. So...it's okay for people to go off and live in the wild to study trolls, but not somehow get themselves intergrated into a wolf pack (even thoug humans are allowed, like Marianne) to study them, or even get themselves wolfed in order to be accepted? Whaaa. Or even vampired to study their internal political hierarchy, because Anita's meant to be an expert in the field, lives with the undead, and still has to get things mansplained to her.
There's very little thought gone into how the world is affected by having this one simple thing of werewolves exist, everyone knows about it. I'm pretty sure that even once it was understood that some of the mysticism is dispelled with science to reveal that it's a disease, there's still all the folklore surrounding werewolves and that's been around a hell of a lot longer. It doesn't make sense to even treat it with the same stigma as HIV/AIDS. Schitzophrenia would be more appropriate, perhaps? Given that Anita's got all these animals inside her that seem to have independent wants of their own that she fights against, or perhaps are a magnification of her own baser instincts and this causes her to act inappropriately toward others and not realise what she's doing because it's not her it's her "beast."
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Date: 2010-08-03 06:33 pm (UTC)There's talk in...Blue Moon, I think? About Richard going off to study trolls with his new girlfriend and Anita's musing about how she wanted to be a Jane Goodall for this sort of thing. So...it's okay for people to go off and live in the wild to study trolls, but not somehow get themselves intergrated into a wolf pack (even thoug humans are allowed, like Marianne) to study them, or even get themselves wolfed in order to be accepted? Whaaa. Or even vampired to study their internal political hierarchy, because Anita's meant to be an expert in the field, lives with the undead, and still has to get things mansplained to her.
There's very little thought gone into how the world is affected by having this one simple thing of werewolves exist, everyone knows about it. I'm pretty sure that even once it was understood that some of the mysticism is dispelled with science to reveal that it's a disease, there's still all the folklore surrounding werewolves and that's been around a hell of a lot longer. It doesn't make sense to even treat it with the same stigma as HIV/AIDS. Schitzophrenia would be more appropriate, perhaps? Given that Anita's got all these animals inside her that seem to have independent wants of their own that she fights against, or perhaps are a magnification of her own baser instincts and this causes her to act inappropriately toward others and not realise what she's doing because it's not her it's her "beast."