JDG wrote: > >> Love is only acceptable between two women. > > O.k., Alberto, you pretty well convinced me that it is > women who staff the pleasure houses for both sexes - > *but* you're going to have to really try > hard to convince me of this one. I don't see the > evidence for it. > The evidences are slowly accumulating :-) >> Notice how Leie >> mocks Maia when she thinks about heterosexual love! > > Do you have a page for this? I think it would be > good to re-view the passage. > Hmmmm.... I didn't record the page... Maybe it's in GS8, because I have analysed it... Something like "Do you want to keep a man like a pet?" >> Why would she? She would have to overcome years of indoctrination >> in believing that man-woman love is pervert, and that the >> pater/maternalistic God that cares about individuals is >> men's superstition. > > Well, how did you take this passage? > I interpreted :-) the story about the "Thunder God" as a reference to a Paternalistic God, in contrast to the Maternalistic spirit-god of Stratos. > I think the passage is important, > because if it wasn't Brin wouldn't have wrote it. > Maia is clearly having some important and unusual > thoughts about sex. What do you think that > they mean? > I guess [notice how uncertain I am! I guess, I interpreted, etc] that, like in that classic stories where Black Men are the dominant race and White Man are slaves or serfs, the message here is that heterosexual behaviour is considered by the majority of Stratoins as aberrant and worth discriminating - so that we can see how horrible it must be to discriminate homosexual behaviour in the here/now situation. Alberto Monteiro
