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xssve -> RE: gor vs vamp (2/10/2011 4:37:47 PM)
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Interesting though Ishtarr... if it was on the Gorean board by 'a Gorean' (for sake of discussion)... would ridiculing Gorean practices have been appropriate? On planet Earth, yes, although it may or may not make you any friends in that forum.
One diff between vamps and Goreans is that there are no dominant roles for women in Gorean, and in general Vampire/Goth is more about romanticism and sensuality than dominance and submission per se - the vampires probably think the Goreans are trogs, and the Goreans probably thinks the vamps are gay, even though, all being actually human, there may not be as many behavioral differences as all this might imply - it's all likely mostly about the clash between two abstract fantasy worlds with distinctly different sets of aesthetic values: human behavior doesn't tend to vary all that much within a fairly basic set of parameters, perhaps that's what makes those little differences so seemingly important.
One finds much the same thing among religions for example, even when they all presumably worship the same god, or gangs, who might live just a couple of streets away from each other, and they often commit bloody murder over it - it's human nature to tribalize, and exaggerate minute, cosmetic differences - civilization is about not taking any of it that seriously, so as long as they aren't slaughtering each other, it's just a thang.
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