Monday, December 28, 2009

Musical Interlude for the day




The old Christmas carol "The Holly and the Ivy" was originally actually about the war of the sexes.
Maria Elena explains...
To the medieval mind, the male was considered the dominant sex, and a support for the weaker and more delicate female, thus the rigid holly shrub and the twining ivy vine must have seemed like natural embodiments of those traits.
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