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Post by erictheblue on Nov 22, 2011 20:30:46 GMT -5
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Post by ironbite on Nov 22, 2011 23:53:54 GMT -5
Go brightly into Between fair lady.
Ironbite-Rest in Peace.
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Post by Shane for Wax on Nov 23, 2011 0:40:51 GMT -5
She's flying with the dragons now, I think Ironbite put it on Twitter. I wish I had been able to see you at Dragon*Con, but you had canceled probably because you were very sick. Rest in Peace, good lady.
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Post by Random Guy on Nov 23, 2011 3:09:16 GMT -5
I am sorry to hear of her passing into between. I really enjoyed the Dragonriders of Pern series; I may have to read them again.
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Post by terri on Nov 23, 2011 17:16:37 GMT -5
Raising a glass of Benden White in her memory.
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Post by The_L on Nov 23, 2011 19:52:55 GMT -5
*cries*
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Post by Runa on Nov 23, 2011 19:56:37 GMT -5
Wow. That sucks. RIP.
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Post by Shane for Wax on Nov 27, 2011 6:29:56 GMT -5
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Post by ironbite on Nov 27, 2011 17:23:04 GMT -5
Figured as much.
Ironbite-her son has some big shoes to fill.
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Post by itachirumon on Nov 28, 2011 4:05:08 GMT -5
Oh God that's horrible to hear, Anne McCaffrey was grandma's favorite author. I never had time to get into the series but I read a chapter or two that was included in my 7th grade english book. Fantasy legend
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Post by gadfly on Nov 29, 2011 14:59:32 GMT -5
I think I've read... like, one book of hers. Wasn't a Dragonriders book, either. I think it was in the Talents series.
Is it too soon to say that she had some really weird ideas about sexuality -- namely that being raped made you gay?
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Post by The_L on Nov 29, 2011 20:02:47 GMT -5
Gadfly: Honestly, it's not too clear that she understood how homosexuality worked at all. Someone asked her whether blue dragons picked gay boys to be their riders, or having a blue dragon turned you gay, and she honestly did not seem to understand the question. She seems to have been of the opinion that you are not gay until you've experienced a homosexual sex act, and that from that moment on, you are gay for life.
That's not quite the same thing as molestation causing homosexuality, though, as all references to gay sex acts in her work imply that they were consensual.
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Post by Dragon Zachski on Nov 30, 2011 3:06:00 GMT -5
I thought that the whole thing about the blue dragons was that their empathic connection would essentially override the rider's natural sexuality. So they could be straight, but because the blue dragon is in love with a green dragon, the male rider will thus feel love for the green's rider, regardless of gender.
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Post by priestling on Nov 30, 2011 13:17:16 GMT -5
Here, to settle this, Anne McCaffrey's own words, from Wiki:
"It’s a proven fact that a single anal sex experience causes one to be homosexual. The hormones released by a sexual situation involving the anus being broached, are the same hormones found in large quantities in effeminate homosexual males. For example, when I was much younger I knew a young man who was for all intents and purposes, heterosexual. He was mugged, and involved in a rape situation involving a tent peg. This one event was enough to have him start on a road that eventually led to him becoming effeminate and gay."
Short version: Be penetrated by anything and you're doomed to be gay, by her "logic".
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Post by Dragon Zachski on Nov 30, 2011 15:46:43 GMT -5
Well that's archaic. Perhaps a product of the times, though?
But overall, she's still a good writer, so this changes very little about my opinion about her :V
And I'll still stick with my "empathic override" interpretation even if it's incorrect.
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