goddess/bitch/whore

Jeff Wilson · 28 Apr 2015, 21:40 · from 2015-April.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 16:40:36 -0500
Subject: (urth) goddess/bitch/whore
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On Tue, April 28, 2015 16:21, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
> OK, the word "foil" was wrong. But they all tend to the
> goddess/bitch/whore
> trichotomy into which female characters are too often written by men.
> (Really, from reading some of his fiction you'd get the impression that
> he'd heard of women but never actually _met_ one.)

Casdoe, Dorcas, Jader's sister, Thecla, and Valeria don't particularly
strike me as falling neatly into that taxonomy. How would you categorize
them?

-- 
Jeff Wilson - < jwilson at clueland.com >
A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab
< http://www.tamut.edu/cil >

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