Re: Please, help for an Almost Dead White Male?

From: farah mendlesohn (fm7@YORK.AC.UK)
Date: Sun May 25 1997 - 06:15:41 PDT


On Fri, 23 May 1997 14:15:10 -0400 Robin Gordon wrote:

> Re Storm Constantine: I was both fascinated and repelled by the
Wraethru
> series. The portrayals of both men and women were offensive to
me (the
> few women in it). And the sexual violence of the gay male tribes.
In
> both this series and the monstrous "Monstrous Regiment" she
writes about
> interesting subjects but then seems to have a limited social
imagination,
> unable to escape offensive stereotypes.
>
> Robin Gordon

I do not much like Storm Constantine either, I find her writing
repellent, but it is repellent in a peculiarly fascinating way. Why?

Farah



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