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Old 12-08-2008, 03:09 PM   #1
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what the turtles weapons say about their...masculinity?

have you ever wondered what the turtles weapons say about their masculinity? I mean think about it the turtles lives depend so heavily on their weapon, they've spent the best part of their lives training with their weapons of choice and becoming one with them, learning the strengths and weaknesses of their weapons and adapating to it to compensate for the weapons inherit weakness to become more proficient in battle. I think the turtles draw a very close connection with their weapons, since you notice they don't even take them off even when they are just relaxing around the lair. And I was wondering that since most males tend to draw a connection between their "toys" like their cars and their power tools and generally anything physical that gives them a chance to show off their prowess, that maybe the turtles weapons also shaped their indenity and personalities. And how they feel as men.

I have a theory that the the size and amount of metal in the turtles weapons make up their placement of importance in the team and how they are as males.

Let's look at Raphael's sias. Maybe they are some sort of metaphor to how he is viewed as a man. The sia's are a medium sized weapon (as opposed to the bo and the katana) that is mostly defensive (or at least appears to be) and it is sharp and edged, meaning Raphael is masculine but because the sia is a weapon that you need to fight defensively with to survive a battle, it may mean that even though Raphael is masculine he feels he always has to prove it and be aggressive about his masculinity to prove that he has it, hence why he is always moody and angry and cranky and has a short temper since he is actually rather insecure.

the sia like Raphael's personalty is rather sharp and he is always defensive and argessive, like the three prongs on his sia. And yet the sia is a medium sized weapon, which also fit into his position of a male in the group. He is definitely an important male and aggressive about it but he isn't the top male. Hence why his weapon is medium sized, but has the benefit of having lethal blades on it that denote his masculinity.

Now lets look at Don's Bo. Donatello's weapon is a long wooden staff. It has no sharp edges to speak of but its long size compensate for that lack of masculine edge that a bladed three pronged weapon of Raphael's weapon may have. It fits his personality and masculinity quite well. Because Donatello is a clean cut and mellow guy with no hard edges of testosterone to speak of, but his bo is long and a larger weapon than Raphael. Meaning that the position of males, he is ahead of Raph because of the size of his weapon but isn't quite as aggressive as Raph because his weapon lacks blades or sharp edges of any sort. But this doesn't mean he isn't as masculine as Raph it just mean that he doesn't have to prove it like him.
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