[LMB] Elli, was Winterfair Gifts

Azalais Aranxta tiamat at tsoft.com
Fri Dec 7 22:08:58 GMT 2007


On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Elizabeth Holden wrote:
>
> Marna rashly said:
> > > ...partly because I suffer from the conviction that if she were
> > > a male character nobody would mind her behaviour in the least.
>
> Malfoy replied:
> > I would.  And you know me well enough to know it.
>
> Yeah, well, I thought the same when I read that - and concluded
> that Marna was (a) talking generally, (b) jumping to
> conclusions about our logic, and (c) wrong.  She is of course
> welcome to argue with me on any or all of these points!
>
> Yes. If she were a man - I think she'd be just the same. I'm
> not sure where Marna thinks there would be improvement. Or if
> not improvement, more tolerance.

Not being Marna I cannot answer definitively, but I think it has
to do with her privileging career over relationships and having a
lot of casual sex.

I don't have a problem with that, though.

~malfoy :)
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