Friday, May 27, 2005
Woman King
I picked up Iron & Wine's Woman King this week and have been enjoying it a great deal. Here's what Josh Gibbs had to say about it a while back.
I do have one question, though: Isn't a woman king called a queen? I don't mean to be nitpicky or chauvinistic; in fact, I've often wondered how much these sort of distinctions (woman deacon / deaconess, woman priest / priestess) matter in our non-inflected tongue. But I wonder what he's trying to convey with "woman king" that "queen" doesn't express. Maybe it's just that "woman king" sounds stronger and cooler. I mean, an album named Queen would sound pretty gay and 80s. I don't know, though. Any thoughts?
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