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From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Silverberg, Tiptree, and author's sex.
Message-ID: <200@graffiti.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 08:00:19 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 16 08:00:19 1985
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> Gee, I know some pretty interesting stories by Harlan Ellison that have just
> the same problem with depicting the show-off behavior of males in distasteful 
> ways!  What's "wrong" with Harlan Ellison?  Is, perhaps like Sheldon, he a 
> woman??  (He doesn't look like one.  I've even seen him write a story, so unless
> he's got a real talent for memorizing he must not have a ghost-writer.)

You missed my point. It's not that the behaviour was distasteful. It's not
even the show-off behaviour that was the problem, it was their behaviour
when alone. When the astronauts were alone they acted like some ideal out of a
sociobiology text. Even their thoughts sounded like they were scripted by
Desmond Morris or Robert Ardrey. Look at how the youngest astronaut behaves
in the capsule before contact... he's actually thinking "alpha-males here.
Better not answer the communicator..."