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From: guy@slu70.UUCP (Guy M. Smith)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: feminist sf/fantasy
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Date: Tue, 22-Oct-85 13:24:18 EDT
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Summary: Gor novels feminist?

> Others have suggested that John Norman's Gor series treat women in a
> radically different way than most other authors, but I haven't had a
> chance to read any of those books.
> 
I read  a couple of the Gor novels while waiting for a Greyhound in
Mojave (in other words, I was desperate). My impression of his attitudes
towards women was that it would be rather hard to be much less feminist. By
comparison Phyllis Schlafly is a flaming liberal. As an example, he
seems to believe that a women's deepest desire is to be a slave to
a man. Not having read all the books I can't vouch for all that he's
said but I suspect the rest are similar.

Guy Smith (How can you be in two places at once when you're not anywhere
            at all?)