Back to AtD "nothin like that"...Or basic masculine stuff, eh Alice?

[Mark Kohut]

Paul Mackin asks:
Wonder if Reef's honor always holds up when he dealing with Yashmeen.
 
Seems it does. When they have Ljubica, he is a total father and Yashmeen's full man when Cyprian decides
he has to part from them. That hurts Reef too, as if he full identified with Yashmeen. Almost co-consciously. 

PM:
Does Reef call on Cyprian because he can do him in ways Yashmeen doesn't allow?
Doesn't seem so. Cyprian is as 'female' in the acts with Reef as Yashmeen is. Reef
is all man with either?  "With no resources to express his feelings to Cyprian, eEef settled for
practical planning."--p. 961  Stereotypical man who cannot express his feelings? And with
Yashmeen the way is thru the act of fathering a baby?

PM:
Does Yash insist he call her ma'am--wouldn't surprise me a bit.
Not literally that I can remember, but in effect. And he would seem to want to anyway.

I'm asking for information.  Been five years since last reading.
 
P
 
P.S (from MK) regarding some of the gender threads that have gone around recently, TRP
seems to have some decided perspectives on all that contained most concentratedly in the 
Reef-Cyprian-Yashmeen scenes...maybe along with Stray and Ewball
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