16 thoughts on “Bemused, Bothered, and Bewildered

  1. The questionable nature of imposing upon others one’s own personal analogies aside, a grown adult that insists that any metaphor must be naturally gender specific doesn’t understand what metaphors are for. Now, if the grown man in question believes in the literal god of thunder, all bets are off and any discussion probably not fruitful.Report

  2. How many books did Fabio inspire? (Heck, the number of books that he inspired that he went on to be on the cover of might even have been recorded somewhere…)Report

  3. I’m as traditional as anyone on this site, and – sure, no problem. I don’t see why muses have to be females. Is there some implication of the word other than a thing outside the artist’s mind that inspires? Unless I’m missing something here, I don’t see why a muse would even have to be human.Report

  4. Good piece. Not a lot to say other that what we have previously discussed, except this: I wonder to what degree we mean different things when we use the word “muse.”Report

  5. Great article Kristin and I agree women can have men for muses. Have to think on our Tod’s question of do we mean the same thing some more.. and damnit you have the EXACT same muses as I do….Report

  6. Hell, I think men can have men for muses and women can have women for muses so women having men for muses? Why the heck not?

    And, as George presciently noted above, most of the internet has cats (male and female) as muses.Report

    1. I would also point out that the muse for Benioff and Weiss, who wrote the last two seasons of Game of Thrones, was probably a dead possum on the side of the road.Report

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