175s

[jbor]

I think that the major reason the 175s have taken Blicero as their "local
deity" is that he was an openly homosexual man in a position of authority
within the oppressor's regime. This seems fairly-straightforward.

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>From: "David Morris" <fqmorris at hotmail.com>
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> Indeed.  This has always been one segment of GR I've stumbled over.
>
> As jbor has indicated from the text, the worship is toward "absolute"
> (badass, hee, hee!) power.  That the 175's are at the very bottom makes them
> most (!!!) sensitive to the top power. Thus is expressed in their worship
> and in their communication ritual: spanning the chasm from low to high.
> S&M is a very convenient vehicle for P to translate macro-power
> discrepancies at the most personal of levels.
>
> Question: Is S&M a predominantly hetero or homo phenomenom?
> Sub-question:  Does the above distinction hold much water?