'Dirty Girls'
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That's what I've been telling myself, because Firefly? I love it. Lots. In many ways. But I know its going to be cruelly ripped away from me.
Now that you know its fate, don't go into it thinking of it as a continuing series. Think of it as a nifty finite series. Maybe that will help.
Fay, I think when it was airing in the US I described it as falling in love with a compulsive parachutist: any day might be the day your beloved went splat. Alas that it did.
Looking at the menus and seeing:
Smoked guinea Foul with Cranberry Chutney
Personally I prefer Fowl.
(I presume this was a typo and not a britishism.)
Westerners--are incredibly odd, with our strange ideas..., our idea of sex as a completely mutual activity between two (or more) equal subjects, and so on.
Larry Niven really put a twist on this by designing species with nonsentient females... wish I could remember what effect this had on their society. I know he worked out some interesting consequences.
The Kzin - and it turned out it was more complicated than that. The females were not really non-sentient. And the whole Kzin society and genetic traits were a result of a primitive tribal society getting hold of genetic engineering and remaking themselves in the image of their folk tales.
Larry Niven really put a twist on this by designing species with nonsentient females...
Is this one of those weird male fantasies that I just don't get, like the one about being a disembodied head in a jar?
Can you remember why the Experimentalist puppeteers made them nonsentient? I can't. I know there was some kind of evolutionary or societal consequence; Niven always does that.
I think this is more a Niven fantasy than a male fantasy. (Heck being a disembodies head in a jar is not a male fantasy either.) He was trying to come up with a plausible truly alien society. Having much more extreme biological differentiation between male and female is one way to get a species truly alien to us. Making them carnivores was another. And it is also (in spite of Niven being very right wing) a satire on a certain type of sociobiologists. As in "here's what we'd really be like if your theories werer correct">
Heck being a disembodies head in a jar is not a male fantasy either.
Based on the number of times I've read otherwise reasonable scientists and philosophers ponder on this as a "what if?" I'm thinking that it is. Not fantasy as in sexual fantasy, fantasy as in "plausible other imaginary."