[LMB] Elli, was Winterfair Gifts

[Azalais Aranxta]

On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Meg Justus wrote:

> > I don't understand why liking or not liking Elli is taken as
> > an issue of feminism.  That's not how I judge her.  I think
> > everyone should be free to choose the lifestyle they want -
> > Elli and Ekaterin alike.
>
> I don't think you do, Elizabeth, but I do think most of the Elli-haters do.

Certainly not me!

> Otherwise, how do you explain that it's okay for Miles not to give up
> Barrayar for Elli, but it's not okay for Elli not to give up the Dendarii
> for Miles?  And that's what the argument seems to be boiling down to.

I specifically have said that's not my beef with her.

It's the way she treated Ethan.  If the genders and situations
had been reversed, anyone could see it as harassing.  But as a
society it's difficult for us to see that women can be sexually
threatening, although they certainly can, and all the more so to
a happily gay man from a planet where there are no women.

~malfoy

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