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From: andrews@yale.ARPA (Thomas O. Andrews)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Feminist SF and S. Delany
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Date: Mon, 21-Oct-85 14:42:13 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 21 14:42:13 1985
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Reply-To: andrews@yale-comix.UUCP (Thomas O. Andrews)
Organization: Yale University CS Dept., New Haven CT
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Summary: 

>Sorry to say, I can't think of many male sf author that don't have a Boy
>Scout's view of either the opposite sex or any kind of sex.  However, I do
>think that Samuel R. Delaney has never written ``sexist chaff''.

   I read Delany's _Triton_ this summer, and was impressed with his
frank portrait of a male chauvanist.  I'm not sure if a feminist could stomach
the book, because the main character is such a bastard, but I found that he was
a believable bastard.  It's an unpleasant book which attacks many male 
self-deceptions that lead to chauvanism. At times, I was suprised at the
similarity between this person and myself, and at other times, I loathed him.
Any other perspectives?
-- 
					      Thomas Andrews

17?  My dear, what worthless, superstitious nonsense!