"AnonMoos" <anonmoos@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:424AD215.AAF2E671@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I don't know that either women or men are more trustworthy overall in
> the Gor books, but one theme which recurs very frequently in Norman's
> writings is that free women on Gor -- except for the most recent raw
> im****ts from Earth -- feel contemptuous superiority and/or prurient
> interest towards slave women,
There are no instances in the Gor books where free women display any
prurient interest in slave women. There are a few incidents where, in
order
to be nasty, they make comments about how men must find them attractive in
various degrading ways. The Gor books are neither homophobic nor
homo*****c:
homo***uality is almost entirely absent. The one undisputed case
(male/male)
we see is viewed by Goreans with a sort of bemused tolerance - Goreans are
not really interested in what other people do privately and tend to
respond
to nosiness with rather violent outrage.
> but almost never feel the slightest
> humanitarian sympathy for them, or any empathetic involvement with their
> plight.
With the stated disclaimer of "almost," this is in fact a quite accurate
statement. Keep in mind that we are talking about an entirely different
culture or cultures, and that the women in question are products of their
environments. Also, the free women we meet in the books are introduced to
us
for a reason, usually that they're cruising for a bruising, metaphorically
speaking. We don't meet happy ordinary people, kind to children and sleen,
in adventure novels of most sorts, and this is hardly unique to Gor.
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