Oddities

[james_davis_nicoll]

Mocking someone's newbie errors in a hobby you both share isn't the way to a woman's heart? Sorry, publicly mocking etc.

Comments

[mme-hardy.livejournal.com]

I would think the set of women who get off on being patronized by men they barely know would be pretty small.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

But Heinlein teaches us women need to be dominated to be won over and what is patronizing people but a form of dominance?

[mme-hardy.livejournal.com]

It's amazing how many women I know whose Awful Ex stories involve being put down all the time.

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

Doesn't Heinlein also teach us that she's probably packing a small but powerful concealed blaster, so watch it, buddy?

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

I was reading it as mocking someone else's newbie errors in a hobby etc. Which I have seen work.

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

Although, agh, I think I have seen the two person version work as well.

Apparently I would rather misread it than contemplate it. (Sort of the way a friend of mine kept on thinking I was taking about the United States when I was asking him about Vietnam fiction about the country.)