not surprised. I used to read a lot of bodice rippers. I understand the strange logic. :) Never seen that logic taken to that extreme though
Carole McDonnell wrote: > LOL!!! > > Hey, what can you do? > > Romance novels are full of women being ravished and carried off > usually by some wild romantic savage. And unless the ravisher is > romantic in the civilized way the writer approves, the hero (wild and > romantic but civilized) has to go take her back from the evil sheik > or evil prince or evil comanche that snatched her. > > I suspect the writer thought she went pretty far...actually create a > child of the forbidden villain-victim union. But she wasn't gonna > allow the half-breed child of rape to live. In the end, all that rape > and child-bearing was quickly forgotten. > > > -C > > > > --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Tracey de Morsella (formerly > Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> How thoughtful and romantic.. >> >> Carole McDonnell wrote: >> >>> The worst save in specfic history -- I forgot the title-- wasn't >>> > in a > >>> science fiction film but in a romance novel. The hero comes and >>> > saves > >>> the girl who had been raped/ravished by the bad guy. Her child in >>> > the > >>> scuffle and the hero comes up to the girl, sweeps her up (cause >>> > she was > >>> so weak and all) and gently pushes the baby aside while he whisks >>> > girl > >>> off. It was like: okay.... >>> >>> -C >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Yahoo! Groups Links >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
