JamesNicoll

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• feymary commented on What Goes Around...
  Comedy Gold Jay. Judith Tarr does not need defending by the likes of me - she is more than capable of defending herself. Her OP resonated with me to the extent the I went back through my bookcases to reacquaint myself with those 80s female authors and also the ones in the 90s who also appear to have never existed during the 'drought of women in SF/F'. And then through all the other decades on my shelves. (I have over 5k in my house not counting my digital versions) I have no idea what a Lipizzan horse is (not being...
• feymary commented on What Goes Around...
  Thanks also to anonemouse and GT...
• Jay commented on What Goes Around...
  You seem to have missed Tarr's comment (#87) that started this whole subthread. She started a discussion of why women are so rare at the pinnacle of the rulership class. For all my failings, I respected her enough to take the discussion seriously. Contempt, on the other hand, I usually express with a comment like "that's interesting"....
• Dirk Bruere commented on What Goes Around...
  "She started a discussion of why women are so rare at the pinnacle of the rulership class." Perhaps because women are less inclined to suicidal monomania coupled with psychopathy....
• feymary commented on What Goes Around...
  Well congratulations Jay. If you were looking for your MRA merit badge, I'd be fairly confident if you headed over to AVFM you'd get it. Well temporarily cos they seem to eat their own a lot of the time. I HAD hoped you might respond with some creativity (given the horse thing - and btw THANKS HEAPS - your comment raising horses and uppity women immediately reminded me of Patti Smith who I have left on the bottom of my music pile for far too long - problem solved!) So lets look at that boring MRA styled crap you wrote...