You suggested racism. I agree that may be part of it. I wonder if the
problem is even deeper? Is someone wants to be "on top", someone must be on
the bottom. Maintaining hiearchy seems to be the more fundamental desire
and how that's done isn't as important as that it is done. For example, it
could be through age, skin color, wealth, education, sex, weight, sexual
preference and on and on.
Cat Farrar
At 05:18 PM 12/31/97 -0800, you wrote:
>On Wed, 31 Dec 1997, Catherine Asaro wrote:
>
>>
>> Surprisingly (to me at least) the book that engendered hostility is
>> CATCH THE LIGHTNING, which is narrated by a seventeen year old Maya girl
>> in a far more traditional role. No one blinked at the fact that women
>> in the other two chose to have love relationships outside of marriage,
>> but in CTL it incensed some readers, even though the two characters
>> eventually married (which for science fiction is about as traditional as
>> it gets). The fact that a girl from the barrio is intelligent and
>> articulate, and eventually earns a number of advanced degrees, has also
>> inspired not only disbelief, but in some cases actual anger. (Another
>> reason I relate to Vonda's comment about being hammered for her
>> portrayal of MJ).
>>
>> I'm not really sure I understand it.
>
> I can. Can you spell R-A-C-I-S-M?
>
>Patricia (Pat) Mathews
>mathews @unm.edu
>
>
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