#43, RE: SoS's crypto-lesbian subtext...
Posted by Sinapus on Jan-31-02 at 10:48 AM
In response to message #18
>>...or perhaps not so crypto. > >>No, *this* is where I will be narrow-minded and object: (2) >>Most of these characters having sex are *teenagers*, well under >>the age of 18. And unmarried, to boot. --Yes yes, I know real-world >>US statistics indicate kids as young as 12 are engaging in carnal >>relations, and there's precedent in anime, but I nonetheless carry >>this silly old-fashioned notion that fiction should *set an >>example*. Even if it's artificial. Even if the story's audience >>isn't the people who *need* the example. <shrug> It's the >>thought that counts. > >Thorne, if we felt like writing messages, we'd write messages. > >We write -stories.- Take 'em or leave 'em. > >Redneck (if we ever begin writing Left Behind fanfic, we'll let >you know) "Well, I was going to try to help in the Ragnarok, but I missed the flight." "So you were-" "Yes, Left Behind." <cue ominous music> (IIRC, that "Left Behind" book is some Post Rapture series or something like that. Good Xians<tm> vanish, Devil takes over the world, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria, blahblahblah.) Patrick Chester "...could you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?"
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