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bellatrys

Old Pulp Gender Role Bending

Oct 05, 2007 13:01

This isn't the Barsoom post I was intending to write (still working on that one) or rather, it's a chunk of it broken out, because it was obviously not all going to fit under one essay-umbrella. In honor of the possibility that Dark Horse has thought better* of gambling a dozen or more thousand simoleons on the dark horse named "Gor", as noted over ( Read more... )

john norman, sexism, feminism, barsoom, gender roles, gor, edgar rice burroughs

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I hope you're happy david_wisdom October 5 2007, 20:05:12 UTC

If Dark Horse [i]has[/i] canceled their Gor omnibus, where will Norman's fans go for their misogynistic pseudo-porn? Through the dusty piles of remaindered paperbacks? [i]What about their allergies?[/i]

[i]What hath we wrought?[/i]

(also, thanks to your essay I'm now inclined to go digging for ERB's stuff)

snerk! bellatrys October 5 2007, 22:11:10 UTC

Yes, sneezing and itchy eyes do spoil the fervid fanboy's mood, don't they?

--Oh, I'm really evil, I just had the idea for doing a fake site (a la Bonsai Kittens) to advertise Gorean Slavegirl outfits for your RealDoll...

You'd be weeping for humanity within the first month david_wisdom October 5 2007, 22:39:16 UTC

How many emails do you think you'd get from Goreans asking how to order them?

I don't know, but it would be awfully funny to see! bellatrys October 6 2007, 00:33:05 UTC

We could offer, at an extra charge, *engraved* slave collars, just like Talena's! (After the whole Sideshow Statuette thing, I *have* no good opinion of fannish humanity left.)

When you gaze into the Abyss ... david_wisdom October 6 2007, 01:24:37 UTC

... the Abyss gazes back ... and starts blathering about the artistic "merit" of Lady Death.

Re: When you gaze into the Abyss ... bellatrys October 6 2007, 01:49:23 UTC

And then Mike Sterling will snark about it. With scans.

(Although I'm not sure which is dumbest, the Witchblade statue, the fake replica movie-prop chainsaw selling for more than a real, working chainsaw, or the AM$800 life-size statue of an Uncanon, sexed-up Star Wars (1977) Princess Leia that Chris's Invincible Superblog is mocking right now.)

Making fun of Witchblade is so 1999 david_wisdom October 6 2007, 02:07:52 UTC

I'm going with the life-size Princess Leia "Monument", because labeling it thusly is the perfect capstone to its absurdity.

Re: Making fun of Witchblade is so 1999 bellatrys October 6 2007, 07:25:40 UTC

Hey, it could be a life-size Princess Aura from the new Flash - that would probably be That Than Which A Dumber Cannot Be Conceived, as far as Invisible Hand stupidity re fannish tie-ins...

Guys, you think this is a joke? deiseach October 6 2007, 17:06:04 UTC

In my researches (ahem) into the appropriate leathern garb for thalarion riders, I ended up on a lot of fetishwear sites (funny, that - who'd have thought looking for men's leatherwear could lead you there, hmmmm, John Norman?) which linked in with BDSM stuff.

Engraved collars? But of course!

You'd be a legitimate business, no problem...

That's what frightens me! david_wisdom October 6 2007, 19:30:28 UTC

It's not just the fetishwear aspect, so much as it is the "fetishwear for RealDolls" bit. The saddest part is, I know such a market must exist.

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