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Najakcharmer -> RE: Gor Aid (song parody) (12/9/2007 6:41:42 PM)
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Inaccurate as well as condescending and intolerant.
The real-life Goreans I have come to know are decent folks well grounded in reality, who take their philosophy and inspiration from the books by John Norman. Cyber-Goreans silly behavior in chatrooms aside, the real-life people will say that the flashy bits of the Gorean lifestyle, eg, the slave girls and suchlike, are not at all important to them. What they do consider important are the ideals, philosophies and codes of honor described in the books, which they take and build on in ways that are personally meaningful to them.
Because the novels do contain quite a bit of, ahem, flashy bits, a lot of people are superficially attracted to the ideas and spend time in chat rooms pretending to be Gorean Warrior Ninja Master Assassin Ubars in order to get hawt nubile slave girls to have cybersex with them. Said girls are probably men in cyber-drag getting their jollies anyhow, but that's beside the point. The cyber-Goreans are pretty silly and deserve any fun that is being made of them. The real life folks who draw their inspiration from Gor but do have a good grounded notion of the difference between fantasy and reality, not so much.
If you don't agree with a specific lifestyle, whether it's gay or bi or trans or femdom or male dom or Gorean, don't play that way - but respect the people who do.
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