[LMB] romance recs, was Krentz, again: Light in Shadow

Meg Justus mmegaera at nwlink.com
Mon Dec 3 19:46:27 GMT 2007


Paula:
> I have a huge issue there.... nerds come in multiple genders--male,
> female, transgendered (I've know at least three people who were
> programmers who worked for Digital Equipment who were transgendered, and
> went from male to female including surgery).  Gender-defining nerd=male
> sets off my reactive armor defenses.... denying the existence of female
> nerds, denies MY existence, after all....

The books don't do that, Paula.  They just concentrate on a specific kind of 
nerd, not deny that the others exist.

Not to mention that some of her heroines are pretty nerdy as well.

Megaera 



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