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bellatrys

A Purely Selfish Reason For Not Wanting DH To Promote Gor...

Jul 25, 2007 13:45

tammy212 has a post on the ethical issues of promoting the Gorean worldview in which she points out that there are not just self-interested reasons as we women worry about encouraging a worldview that depicts us as "natural slaves", but that (shades of Kant) the Gorean mindset, as an exaggerated, valorized version of run-of-the-mill traditional patriarchy ( Read more... )

misogyny, chauvinism, worldbuilding, writing, sarcasm, badfic, sexism, fandom, gor

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ronin_kakuhito July 25 2007, 19:00:52 UTC

"If it's on another planet, then they could so fly to Dune and tame the Bene Gesserit!"

Heh, whoever the first Emperor was radioactive parking-lotted Gor.

ronin_kakuhito July 25 2007, 19:01:47 UTC

*sigh* left out an adjective

radioactive glass parking-lotted Gor.

smurasaki July 25 2007, 19:05:19 UTC

That's probably the most merciful solution.

Mac

ronin_kakuhito July 25 2007, 19:08:55 UTC

Well that, and the Empire only needs so many hell worlds

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An uncharitable thought strikes me deiseach July 25 2007, 19:57:47 UTC

"If it's on another planet, then they could so fly to Dune and tame the Bene Gesserit!"

Tarnsmen of Gor and the Aes Sedai - they deserve one another.

evilstorm July 25 2007, 20:09:50 UTC

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA TARNSMEN VS. HONOURED MATRES

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA BEST CROSSOVER CRACK EVER (and you know who'd win XDDD)

And omfg you're absolutely right aauuuugghhh. Justification for badfic writers, whyyyyy.

Now that you've dredged up this previously blocked memory voxwoman July 25 2007, 21:15:30 UTC

I feel compelled to share it with you.

I'm sure you're familiar with the SCA, and it's Big Party on the East Coast - the Pennsic War (taking place in a Pennsylvania cornfield in just a few weeks, if I'm not mistaken). Well, apparently a wannabe biker gang wanted to get in on all the fun, and decided that the Middle Ages also had Tuchux. I had managed to forget all about those jerkoffs. Until just now.

Re: Now that you've dredged up this previously blocked memory lyorn July 26 2007, 13:06:33 UTC

I used to know a bunch of Tuchux jokes in my SCA days...

The Tuchux had one use, no matter how crazy the Drachenwalders were, the Tuchux were always a lot worse.

fledgist July 25 2007, 23:37:33 UTC

It all sounds like men who never passed the mental/emotional age of ten encouraging other men to stay stupidly juvenile.