Dreamer wrote:
> <lensman1955@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Actually, they weren't that bad. Sort of "hard core" Edgar Rice
> > Burroughs-Mars stuff. What got to me was the hypocricy. (sp)
>
> There isn't any hypocracy if you also realize that the books are
perfectly
> consistent in the general case of the specific observation you make
below:
> the assertion that men and women are fundamentally different. Whether
you
> believe it or not is another question, but it's not fair to call a
book
> hypocritical in one breath and make fun of it for endlessly repeating
the
> same message with the next.
>
> > In several cases, the hero gets enslaved. This is so horrible, that
not
> > only does he have to escape, but he has to destroy the group that
> > enslaved him, yet in several cases he teaches a woman how to be a
> > proper slave and admires the scipt "S" branded into their legs.
>
> Actually, it was a "k."
>
> Just trying to help.
>
> :)
>
> D
Been awhile since I read the books. Don't want to wade through that
slime again! But thanks.