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<body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="gmail_quote">On January 30, 2020 7:27:04 AM EST, "Norwood, Frederick Hudson" <NORWOODR@mail.etsu.edu> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">In my experience, people who complain about having to be “politically correct” are people who want to say rude things and are really complaining about not being
allowed to be rude.<br>
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Rick<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Urth [mailto:urth-bounces@lists.urth.net]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Gem Caccetta<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 29, 2020 2:15 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> urth@lists.urth.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] (urth) Wolfe & Women<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Courier">On Wed Jan 29 2020 Ab de Dos wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Courier">"I believe the politically correct accuse Wolfe likewise of being a christian misogynist…"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">I know Wolfe’s portrayal of women has been discussed many times on this list. I found this tidbit from my recent re-reading of Free Live Free interesting:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Courier">Free says…”You like women, don’t you, Mr. Barnes?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Courier">“Like them?” Taken off guard Barnes considered for a moment. “Not really. I want them, and since I can’t have them, usually, I don’t like them. But I want them, I suppose you could say that. I admire Madame Serpentina.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">I wouldn’t be surprised if this was Wolfe’s own attitude toward women speaking through Barnes. He could find things to admire in some women, but he didn’t really like them. Just my guess,
for what it’s worth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all">I see no reason whatsoever to ascribe Barnes' attitude to Wolfe. That's not how authorship works. It's far more likely that the thought occasionally occurred to Wolfe as a question---do I actually like women, or do I merely find them necessary?---and he found it interesting enough to use for building a character's interiority. </body></html>