Gorean Philosophies

[littlepet]

Seri,

I never ever once said that you lived your life just like the gor novels. I said I believe the Gor novels are misogynistic. And I disagree also with the philosophy that "women" have a "place" or "role." And that it is "submissive" toward men.

My stating you seem submissive toward others is simply because you tend to call other dominants "sir." This may be for only a few and not all, I have no idea, as I said "from what I'd seen"

I have not once in the entire time that we have spoken made ANY type of assessment about exactly what you may or may not be doing in your Gorean Lifestyle. i have not called you wrong or immoral or assumed anything about anything.

All I've done is said I think John Norman is a psycho and his books are misogynistic. That's it.

You said this thread isn't mean to "slam the books" but that was what brought me over here to begin with because we WERE discussing the books and the fact that I found them misogynistic. That was it. I don't care to debate someone's actual lifestyle because I don't care what people do as long as it's consensual.


Hey Thorne, I need social contact, but I don't tend to overly identify with any group.

On the Gor books, I can understand the eroticism to some people for certain parts, but it just goes too far IMO. And Norman himself seems to believe a lot of what he's saying, even if he's hiding behind fiction.

I write some fictional stories about rape and forced submission, but I think it's important to deal with such things, even in fiction in some type of moral way, IMO. i.e. while a character may develop some sort of stockholm syndrome, she's not going to "fall in love with her rapist." That, IMO is disrespectful to women and the actual trauma of rape.

I think for something like that to work in fiction and actually be erotic (as opposed to a story where a rape happens but it isn't eroticized), it can't be glorified as morally good or okay. And moving the action to another planet doesn't change the basic immorality of the situation.