Ron,
I understand what you are saying, and I agree.
BUT, I ask my patterned-self if this book was written with the gender
of all the characters reversed, would it still be considered
wisdom? I think not. Not even acceptable science fiction. I
understand the universality of the Tao, but it is not enough to have
yang address yang. I won't be told not to trouble my silly little
head with such trivial matters. I am not talking about mere sexual
discrimination. It's not as personal as you seem to think. My
canvases don't at all care if a woman or a man places paint upon
them. Gender is a division more INSIDIOUS than subject/object. And
I think it was you who suggested that the subtext in LILA was a sexual
one.
Ron:
Yes it was me who suggested how preconceptions about gender was the
focal point of the interaction between Lila and the Capt. I also stated
how I
Believed he chose this because it is a basic example of the problem at
It's root.
The book you read may well indeed have masculine undertones and
misinterpretation, but the words you posted held no gender
interpretation where I could see.
No where in my post did I say " not to trouble your silly little
head with such trivial matters."
Interesting how you state then " I am not talking about mere sexual
discrimination. It's not as personal as you seem to think."
Then immediately follow with " Gender is a division more INSIDIOUS than
subject/object"
Do you not see the contradiction?
Marsha:
"My canvases don't at all care if a woman or a man places paint upon
them."
All the world is your canvas Marsha, you are the one who paints upon it.
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