(urth) The Death of Doctor Island Movie
Kurt Schwind
kurt.schwind at gmail.com
Mon Oct 16 13:20:59 PDT 2006
Well said.
On 10/16/06, Mo Holkar / UKG <lists at ukg.co.uk> wrote:
> At 18:38 16/10/2006, you wrote:
> > >> Care to expound on why you find it offensive?
> > >
> > >I was thinking the same thing. I mean there is some violence in
> > >there, but nothing more than you'd find in any of his other books.
> > >Heck, he had an executioner for a protaganist. So what did you find
> > >offensive David?
> >
> >Oh, blatant misogyny.
>
>
> I think a reader dead set on avoiding misogyny would have to avoid
> quite a lot of Wolfe's work. In my case it's something I put up with
> for the sake of the rest of the writing, but it does make me feel
> uncomfortable.
>
> He's far from the only SF writer with whom that's the case, of course.
>
> Mo
>
>
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