Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gitpyr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!gatech!gitpyr!roy From: roy@gitpyr.UUCP (Roy J. Mongiovi) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Women's preferences Message-ID: <436@gitpyr.UUCP> Date: Mon, 17-Dec-84 22:34:37 EST Article-I.D.: gitpyr.436 Posted: Mon Dec 17 22:34:37 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 19-Dec-84 02:47:41 EST References: <715@watcgl.UUCP> <1032@houxm.UUCP> Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA Lines: 35 I would like to throw a little more wood onto the "do women really like men that are assholes" fire. I am sort of curious what sort of reaction women (and men) have to the ideas in the infamous GOR science fiction series. Those of you who have read net.sf-lovers in the past already know what I'm talking about, but here's a quick recap for those who don't. The GOR novels (or counter-earth) are written by an individual who calls himself John Norman. In actuality, his name is John Lange, and he is a doctor of philosophy in some college in New York. The basic idea of these novels is pretty much the same as the idea for which he was given his PhD: A woman can only truly realize her full potential and find fulfillment by becoming the sex slave of a virile man. Now that sounds pretty unbelievable to me, in fact it sounds like a teenage male's wet dream come to life. But the plot gets better. These novels are published by DAW, and Donald A. Wollheim (= DAW) claims that sales on this series are SINGLE-HANDEDLY keeping DAW Books afloat. Also, in an interview, John Lange claims that 4 out of every 5 letters he receives about the books are from WOMEN and are FAVORABLE!!! These books contain lovely stuff like: the way to tell is a woman is a REAL woman is to flick her between the legs with a whip and watch how she "moves." Now, I'm glad that DAW books is making money, because they publish a lot of other stuff which is quite good. But please, tell me that what the GOR books say isn't so.... -- Roy J. Mongiovi. Office of Computing Services. User Services. Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta GA 30332. (404) 894-6163 ...!{akgua, allegra, amd, hplabs, ihnp4, masscomp, ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!roy Who me? I'm not even a REAL modo, I'm only a quasi-modo.