They discuss it? When? Lorimer mentions it right at the end, but their response is the "preoccupied compassion" look (great phrase).
The future-women don't, because the traits are cultural, not genetic.
But the fact that Andy/Kay feels aggression presumably refutes this?
It's an argument that the society Tiptree saw around her was sick and self-destructive. I said it was bleak ...
Bleak, yes; but certainly rooted in the cultural norms of when it was written (just like several other novels we've discussed recently :-p). However, I'm still slightly boggled by the idea that those traits are cultural rather than biological.
BTW, Travel Light is on it's way to you; I've popped it in a box with some other stuff, so (unless I can persuade DH to go to the Post Office for me tomorrow, which is disticntly unlikely) you should have it at the end of the week.
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Date: 2005-12-11 06:12 pm (UTC)They discuss it? When? Lorimer mentions it right at the end, but their response is the "preoccupied compassion" look (great phrase).
The future-women don't, because the traits are cultural, not genetic.
But the fact that Andy/Kay feels aggression presumably refutes this?
It's an argument that the society Tiptree saw around her was sick and self-destructive. I said it was bleak ...
Bleak, yes; but certainly rooted in the cultural norms of when it was written (just like several other novels we've discussed recently :-p). However, I'm still slightly boggled by the idea that those traits are cultural rather than biological.
BTW, Travel Light is on it's way to you; I've popped it in a box with some other stuff, so (unless I can persuade DH to go to the Post Office for me tomorrow, which is disticntly unlikely) you should have it at the end of the week.