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Letter to a john
Mar. 27th, 2006 06:27 pmAnyone familiar with the saying "There's no prude like a reformed whore"?
Leaving aside, for a moment, all the unwarranted, bigoted and sexist character judgments embedded in that choice of subjects for comparison, there's a grain of truth in it.
For example, the people who viciously castigate, in great detail, authors like, say, Mercedes Lackey, saying she's a hack who writes cloyingly speshul heroines flatter than paper... They had to have read a lot of her books at some point, to know all they do about those supposedly horrible heroines and other characters allegedly beneath their contempt.
Kind of the same way the person most likely to need to think a whore is also a slut is the john who patronizes her.
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Leaving aside, for a moment, all the unwarranted, bigoted and sexist character judgments embedded in that choice of subjects for comparison, there's a grain of truth in it.
For example, the people who viciously castigate, in great detail, authors like, say, Mercedes Lackey, saying she's a hack who writes cloyingly speshul heroines flatter than paper... They had to have read a lot of her books at some point, to know all they do about those supposedly horrible heroines and other characters allegedly beneath their contempt.
Kind of the same way the person most likely to need to think a whore is also a slut is the john who patronizes her.
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