Interestingly enough, I never saw it as an allegory, a response critical or other to Xanthe's story, nor as an homage. When people kept on saying that it was an allegory, that's when I was curious as to why they said that.
You keep saying things that make no sense at all.
I don't understand how you could not see Helen's story as an allegory. How completely ignorant of history would you have to be in order to not see any connection between society's treatment of subs in Helen's story and society's treatment of women in America?
And I don't understand how you could not see it as a response to Xanthe's story. Did you just think it was a completely random coincidence, that Helen came up with the idea of a BDSM universe independently? Of course it was a response.
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Date: 11/19/06 02:25 am (UTC)Interestingly enough, I never saw it as an allegory, a response critical or other to Xanthe's story, nor as an homage. When people kept on saying that it was an allegory, that's when I was curious as to why they said that.
You keep saying things that make no sense at all.
I don't understand how you could not see Helen's story as an allegory. How completely ignorant of history would you have to be in order to not see any connection between society's treatment of subs in Helen's story and society's treatment of women in America?
And I don't understand how you could not see it as a response to Xanthe's story. Did you just think it was a completely random coincidence, that Helen came up with the idea of a BDSM universe independently? Of course it was a response.