Audience of Strangers

Disclaimer: I play in an LJ RPG. This is a discussion of the text created in the RPG from a feminist perspective. I have made judgements.

If you're in the game, and not interested in a moderately informed layperson's critical analysis that might touch on a PC you happen to play, or not up for reasoned discussion of same in a moderately informed context of society's views on the role of women, please do not read this. If you've asked me not to discuss your PC, or aren't interested in hearing me possibly do so, the same. Thank you.

And since this discusses the use of sex as a tool, there is going to be mention of rape. May be triggery.

( That radical idea that women are people. )

Okay, this keeps getting longer and harder[2] to write, and I need to go post up a discussion of the moral foundation for Iblis being evil. Also get lunch.

ETA: I never got lunch. Also, potentially triggery stuff in the comments.
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[1] And I do not agree with this being the truth from within the Christian context, personally, being a fan of Boethius and Lewis, but I do acknowledge that God is frequently both seen as and (more often) used that way.
[2] Heh. Insert Excolo joke here.

First; a friend of theweaselking's is a pediatric oncologist. He works in a teaching hospital, where he regularly gets to deal with children who are dying of cancer.

And he's still an optimist.

I think he's madder than a box of frogs, and he renews my faith in humanity on a regular basis. Also he writes beautifully. I highly recommend his Ward Tales: Prometheus Reversed entry, and in fact anything else that he has tagged as medicine.

Note that it's not light reading. And sometimes it's heartbreaking (that entry isn't). But it's all very very good.

Also, John and I went out to dinner with his father. And on the drive back, the mist was rising off the ground everywhere, parading down the river like cool white smoke as high as the trees and drifting up from the grass and fading everything to warm grey ghosts from perhaps thirty feet away.

(And he knows me so well that yes, he correctly diagnosed the Stephen King moment I was having.)