At 15:46 4/10/97 -0400, you wrote:
>I think it would be unfair to condem Tepper as anti-gay based merely on her
>description a "the gay sundrome" caused by a hormonal imbalance that was
>fixed at birth. I don't recall the "gay syndrome" was a big part of the
>book, but I read it a long time ago and may have forgotten. So we should give
>Tepper a break here.
It's always a mistake, I think, to hold an author personally responsible
for what her characters say and do in a story. (It's frequently done,
but it's neither fair nor honest.)
Martha Bartter
Truman State University
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