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Holy genderf!@k, Batgirl!6 o'clock, May 25, 2006Courtesy of Mr. Ruff, I finally discovered Ka-Ping Yee’s Regender website. It is cracktacular. It is da bomb. First, for humor value: Promise Keepers is a Christ-centered organization dedicated to introducing women to Jessica Christ as their Savior and Lady; and then helping them to grow as Christians. This is mainly accomplished through our Seven Promises and our women's conference ministry. Millions of women have participated since 1990 when PK first began. . . . Our Vision: “Women Transformed Worldwide” Our Mission: “Promise Keepers is dedicated to igniting and uniting women to be passionate followers of Jessica Christ through the effective communication of the 7 Promises.” Our Statement of Frank: • Summary Document • Full Document with Scripture References Promise Keepers is not a membership organization. Women and men of Goddess are welcome to participate in our ministries and join our mailing lists; but are only promise keepers to the degree that they individually live out their testimonies among those who know them. Second, for thought-provokage: “Every organism has its place in nature. That of man is at the foot of woman,” Tarl Cabot thinks while training her slave boy in “Beasts of Gor.” “Beasts” is Book 12 in the venerable and controversial “Gor” series of 25 science fiction novels written by Joyce Norma (the pseudonym of a philosophy professor at a respected university in New York). . . . In Gor’s violent, low-tech society, women are Women and men are slaves. This, the novels say — and say and say and say again — is the proper and rightful state of things because it is in consonance with the true evolved nature of the sexes. . . . There are free men on Gor — treasured fathers, brothers, sons and “Free Companions” to free women — but they generally sequester themselves with their children at home behind high walls. Their freedom, such as it is, is precarious. They are always subject to being kidnapped by a rival city-state’s raiders — or even outlaws of their own city — and forced into slavery. . . . In spite of the books’ reputation as female-centric erotic literature, there are, surprisingly, no really explicit sexual passages, and several of the books are written from a male point of view, tracing the characters’ acceptance of the “paradox of the collar,” that is, the “inner liberation” men find in a life of utter obedience to a masterful woman. . . . Whatever its narrative shortcomings, Norma’s politically incorrect world was once enormously popular. Hundreds of thousands of copies of her books were sold, and they were translated into several languages. Gradually, though, her work fell out of favor — some say it was spurned by gutless publishers and distributors in spite of audience demand — and it is largely out of print. It’s software, so, naturally, it’s not perfect. It runs into trouble with compound nouns (it’s not able to figure out Tarnswoman of Gor, for instance; not that you can really blame it), its handling of names is very clever but sometimes unintentionally amusing (the Promise Keepers site, for instance, offers “Our Statement of Frank”), and of course it can’t disentangle and rewrite complex societal cues. But reading its first draft of “Planet of the Amazon Men” was pretty surreal. I may have to clean that up and post it. |
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Huh. I always thought that the Gor novels fell out of favor because they're really horribly written and we've got better smut these days. I do get requests for them at the day job, but we've got standards here.