The Burroughs Mars books WERE misgynistic; Robert Heinlein LOVED them.
Nominee for Best Use of a Semicolon.
Because it's all about implying things.
Mal: Well, look at this! Appears we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us? Zoe: Big damn heroes, sir.
'Safe'
Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
DebetEsse - Feb 16, 2012 7:46:25 pm PST #7654 of 30001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Typo Boy - Feb 16, 2012 7:47:12 pm PST #7655 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Incidentally, someone commented on the John Carter series as a "what these people need is honky" thing. I think Edgar Ric Burroughs, though he may not have invented that, certainly epitomized it. Tarzan - honky in Africa, slaughters an entire tribe in revenge for killing his foster-mother. (Phillip Jose Farmer once called Tarzan "Genocide John". )And didn't Burroughs do a hollow earth book? (explorers with shotguns vs. dinosaurs!) I think when it came to ERB, books not based on the premise that "what these people need is a honky" were the exception.
Strix - Feb 16, 2012 7:47:19 pm PST #7656 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I got a new cat box today -- cleaning and bleaching the old one was not cutting it, it was so old -- but I am not going out to the outside trash can to get rid of the old one in the rainy damp. I will do it first thing tomorrow, I promise.
I DID give the cats nip, so they are stoned and uncaring.
I trimmed Arthur (the dog's) claws today, and accidently cut too deep on one. It bled, and I felt awful.
Strix - Feb 16, 2012 7:49:21 pm PST #7657 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Debet, that was not an implication; it was an indictment.
Maria, I am happily your puppet tonight. If you were on Skype, you could make me do all kinds of fooliish stuff to make you happy.
See? I just totally flashed you!
Typo Boy - Feb 16, 2012 7:49:34 pm PST #7658 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
[edit - Edgar Rice Burroughs racism I mean] Umm, in addition to the misogyny,
Pix - Feb 16, 2012 7:50:17 pm PST #7659 of 30001
The status is NOT quo.
{{{{Maria}}}} We love you. We’re here.
Huh. I never knew that's what they were called.
It’s amazing what spending most of the past seven years surrounded by sound designers will do to you. ND et al often joke that I could fake a sound design at this point.
Strix - Feb 16, 2012 7:50:27 pm PST #7660 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
On second thought, that might have terrified you.
Naw, I lost weight -- my tits look GREAT!
Maria - Feb 16, 2012 7:51:52 pm PST #7661 of 30001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Hah!
I am so tired but I don't want to close my eyes.
Typo Boy - Feb 16, 2012 7:51:56 pm PST #7662 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
And Maria, we will happily talk to please you. Though we tend to talk a lot regardless. Kind of like asking us to eat pie to please you. But we do love you, so we will talk more.
Hil R. - Feb 16, 2012 7:53:06 pm PST #7663 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I finally finished grading midterms today. Which means I can sleep as late as I want tomorrow! Well, as late as I want as long as it's not later than about 10, since I do still have to teach in the afternoon.