Betteryeti,
I have a number of points I would like to address.
Firstly, I should clear up this issue:-
***Centaur writes,
"The Stylist: 'The High Priestess of Style' Is it just me or does she look like a psycho brandishing a hairdryer?"
She's my partner. She's a Ph.D candidate in English Lit at an Ivy.***
If you look closely at that photograph, the woman is holding a hairdryer as though it were a gun, and her figure is placed inbetween an open-pair of scissors. Let me revert back to one of your other comments:-
***Breathe deeply, and say it slowly: Sense. Of. Humor.***
Yes. That is correct. I was making a joke re. the imagery on the card: psycho: gun: stylist: hairdryer, and the pose in which she was standing.
I also did not make any reference to her educational achievements, nor her intellectual capacity. It would appear that you are trying to infer that I was making some comment re. being a stylist and intelligence level. Please tell me in which part of my post I did this?
***And your hostility toward women is showing.***
Oh really? Where? Please post the relevant sections of text. I did not make any comments of that sort. Or are you trying to imply that gay-men are in some way hostile towards women? If so, then this is just thinly veiled homophobia on your part.
Now for your other points. I should add that I had to look very hard for these in amongst the anger so evident in your post. May I suggest that in future you wait until you are feeling in a better frame of mind before posting, or indeed handling any form of criticism. It is not advisable to go flying off the handle as it does not portray you in a very positive light.
Now, let me clear up something else. This particular section of the forum is called TAROT DECKS: for opinions of the thousands of different types and styles of tarot decks. The key word here is OPINIONS. Opinions can be good and bad. I think one could also call these opinions, 'criticisms'. And yes, you guessed it... criticisms can be good or bad. Now... if you browse this section for other decks which have received criticism you will find that you are not the only one. Some examples:-
Tarot of Marseille
Hanson-Roberts
Thoth
I could go on and on and on... almost every deck has positive and negative comments.
***Well, it just makes me exasperated. Why, you ask? Um, because EVERY SINGLE CARD IN MY MAJOR ARCANA (okay, sorry i went all caps on you for a second, but stay with me) contains an explicit, literal reference to its correspondent in the Ryder-Waite. Like, take The DJ: "he's the hierophant of hip." Get it? How about Prescriptions: "howling at the moon." The Moon. Get it? Do I need to be more explicit? Could you be any less observant?***
I think you misunderstand Lee. I think that he was merely making comments re. the card names, which in my opinion, do not relate to any of the traditional names of the major arcana. This is indeed a valid point. Remember, we are talking about opinions here.
***Want to talk about shallow? The shallowest thing I see here is the level of thought, the analysis, and the attention span.***
What is so shallow about comparing two different types of tarot-deck? Remember, that what we have said on this board has been justified in terms of our opinion. So... please explain?
***I've had several thousand visitors to the MST site by this point -- as well as several hundred thousand (and thousands of decks sold) of the Silicon Valley Tarot. Most everybody gets a big kick out of both of them. With the almost exclusive exception of "Tarot Experts."***
Is this why your response is so full of anger: because we do not like your deck? Again, it is inadvisable to post when one is so upset.
***2) Ethnography. "That aspect of cultural anthropology concerned with the descriptive documentation of living cultures." As in, this is supposed to be an innovative and creative re-framing of the Tarot: a lense through which to view living human cultures.***
I actually agree with this.
***Where did anybody get the idea that the Tarot was sacred, or that using it as a device to observe subculture is somehow a defacement? And where does anybody -- ANYBODY -- get off claiming proprietary knowledge to, and connection with, Tarot?***
Again, we are talking about opinions here. Most of us use tarot on a daily basis, and are quite serious about the study of it. This is what we do here. We discuss tarot, tarot-decks and other tarot-related issues. Oh, and if you browse the other forums, I am sure that you will find some threads relating to your questions. Just don't get angry when you don't find the answer you are looking for!
***Thanks to all of you who said nice things. Thanks to all of you who actually seem to be paying attention. Um, to things like popular culture. And the human condition. And thanks to all of you who seem permeable to things like change, and new ideas. I'm not sure you're in the majority in this forum. I'd love to be mistaken, so I'll keep my mind open.***
Oh. I see that in your mind because we do not like your deck then that makes us somehow closed-minded, ignorant to popular culture and the human-condition. Ridiculous.
***(like the guy who can't concede the point that "metrosexual" applies to STRAIGHT MEN. oops sorry caps again...)***
Yes. That was me. I do not claim to 'know' everything, and I was not aware of the term as used to describe straight men. Now, if you had actually read over these posts, you will have noticed that I did 'concede to the point that 'meterosexual' applies to straight men', and that we also reached the conclusion that if metrosexual is in some way defined as a straight man who acts like a gay man, then it does have some homosexual associations.
Again, I urge you to address these negative feelings when they next arise, nd make an attempt to calm yourself, as it only results in thoughtless outbursts which you may later regret. It also hinders your ability for clear, logical thought, and also may cause you to miss out on points crucial to the argument. I do hope that you manage to learn how to handle criticism in the future. I can only imagine your response to an actual deck review or article if this is the way you react to comments on a tarot forum.
Now, I am going to get my non-meterosexual ass out of here.
C