Curiosity during the reading of AtD.

[David Morris]

He has some generation weaknesses:  His repeated willingly victimized
female characters, Maxine was his latest version. GR had some classic gay
male stereotype insults.  But those weakness I can overlook in the big
picture.

David Morris

On Wednesday, September 9, 2015, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Surely fewer women readers, surely. right ladies on the list? I offer
> simplistically that when he was said to have math and science shit in his
> early books, that culture-created distance of most women from those
> subjects created fewer readers.
> He is a feminist in many essential ways in his vision, I argue.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Sep 9, 2015, at 6:13 PM, David Kilroy <thesaintgodard at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks heaps, Kamil.  Looks to be good reading!
> >
> > The Beefheart comparison was probably unfairly frivolous.  Of the po-mo
> nuts I know, the only one with a posthorn tat's Lisa Yaszek at the school
> of Literature & Communication at GA Tech.  She used to bang rails with Pat
> Cadigan.  Now she teaches rambling aspies how to speak without snarling.
> It's a living...
> >
> > Just got to wondering.  It's an aspect I rarely hear discussed, re: his
> "audience".  P's never been one to write with an eye toward a broader
> audience (groaannn) so the majority of his books don't pass that Bechdel
> test.  Why I continue to dig BE, obv.
>
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