Chronicles of Narnia

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I think youre spinning a bit.

There was a bit of a purposeful feral look about "locks" in some the cultures you mentioned and understtod but unintended feral nature about them in yet other of those cultures. I think you are slantin the presentation.

Im all for people enjoying thier hair how ever they wish.
But much like our clothes its an image e choose for ourselves and and only fair if we let others judge us by the image we present(of course it might be wise to take a more sircumspect view to cultural transplanrs.).
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Just a question. What you said was an entirely fair statement. I don't think you are trolling, which is really nice.

Who defines "feral" and what is "civilised"?

A long time ago, ALL human beings had locks. No combs. It is natural for hair to entwine with it's self and create locks. It's part of the human evolution. In the blistering heat, you can soak your locks in water, and the slow evaporation with air flow through the locks acts as a radiator effect. (Even normal sweating will cool you) Evaporation and airflow cools the head considerably. In the freezing cold, locks, with pockets of air trapped in them, keep you warmer and act as a better insulator than combed hair. The ability to have our hair lock is what allowed us total environmental adaptation, in addition to our wonderful brains and flexable thumbs. It's all part of the total package.

A very very long time ago, let's go back to early Egypt. People wore locks. Even in the later parts of the Egyptian Empire. King Tut had locks, which are still remarkably well preserved. Would you say that the Egyptians were "feral"? What about the Babylonians? Persians? Ancient Hebrews and their early civilisations?

It's a fair question.

It bothers me that people with locks in movies are always shown in a negative light. It bothers me that people like you hold views that locks are somehow associated with being "feral". It bothers me that you have been spoonfed an image your whole life, one that you are not even aware of I believe, that anybody that somehow looks different from you is somehow "feral". Don't feel bad, it is associative xenophobia, something pounded in to our heads by our parents, our surrounding milieu during our impressionable years, and our educational system. It is also a deeply ingrained instinctual response hardwired in to our brains that causes us to see anybody different from us as a threat to our own subgroup, from way back in the days when human beings were a remarkably fragile species on the verge of being wiped out by anything, and were still competitive with each other for territory, living space, and food.

And that's what bothers me. I would venture a guess that some clever person gave the White Witch locks in an attempt to make audiences really dislike her on some deep instinctual level... By tapping in to that "associative xenophobia". She is obviously different. And therefore, bad. People have built in programming that can be tapped to hate her. It would build emotional tension in the audience. And most people will never even be able to put their finger on why they don't like her, although many will make the connection that she is after all, a witch, and she is evil, but there will be sense of revulsion that goes deep down in to the onion layers of our brains... A programmed response that few can deny. Even better, in a theatre, surrounded by like looking social milieu most likely, people that look very much the same, on a deep empathetic level, there will be a group sense of revulsion, which is really a very interesting psychological response if you want to get right down to it.

Oops. Er... Hey um... I think I just gave my self away. I am obviously not the absent minded old fool that many think of me to be. I shall go back to being a fool that makes jokes about everything now and stop being so bloody serious.

Just something to think about folks when you go to the theatre folks. Ponder the real enemy.