AtD / TRP / feminist type stuff

[terrance terrance]

>
>Katje is something more than a sex object: she has a mathematics 
>background, she's a spy, and she's contemplative in nature.  Regardless of 
>whether sex (and preverted sex, at that) is her main weapon, she hardly 
>comes across as a bimbo.
>
>Leni Pokler comes across as an intelligent person.  Geli  a witch, but not 
>a bitch.  Jessica, more bourgeois than bitchy. Bianca, like Gottfried and 
>Baby Tyrone, is an abused child.
>
>Enzian starts out as Blicero's sexual partner before becoming his 
>intelligent disciple/adversary.
>
>Gottfried, on the other hand, functions purely as a sex object.  Not overly 
>bright, passive, a ready victim (now everybody--).  He's possibly the least 
>complex character in the book.
>
>Of the over 30s:  Greta, while creepy, is still a sexual being.  Pointsman 
>is socially retarded and sexually inept.  Brigadier Pudding? Yikes.  Otto's 
>mom is kind of feisty and fun.
>
>The good guys: Slothrop, Mexico, Katje, Pirate, Enzian, Geli.
>The bad guys: Blicero, Major Marvy, Pointsman, Greta.
>The victims: Gottfried and Bianca.
>
>All in all, GR doesn't have a guys and bimbos, James Bond/Hugh Hefner type 
>mentality.
>
>
>Terrance wrote:
>
> >Were there men in GR? Any characters we recognize as men? I don't think 
>so.
> >
> >I doubt that the Feminist readings of GR that argue for equal time on 
>stage
> >are worth very much.
>
>Jeez, circle the wagons, guys.  There's feminists afoot!
>
>Laura
>
>
>PS- and by the way, most feminists are NOT lit-crit academic types.

PS pynchon's books don't have persons in them.
>

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