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Well, okay. Relatively reputable. Anything that isn't Fox or any other agency owned by Rupert Murdoch.

Comic books!?

When I grow up and have lots of money, I'm going to start a Robert Howard themed sim. Yeah!

I don't know. Most of the others aren't much better in my opinion.

They're all biased, but atleast they don't claim to be "fair and balanced", nor use slogans like "We report, you decide". I'd have more respect for Fox if their slogans were "Right Wing and Conservative","The Republican Party's Mouthpiece" and "We report, We decide". There's nothing wrong with being right wing, it's the bogus claims of impartiallity that I despise.

Thank good for the good old BBC - about the closest thing the world has left to an impartial news service.

The trick is to play the averages - find a right wing news agency and a very liberal one and listen to them both. You can be pretty sure that the truth is roughly half way between them.

Errm, have you seen today's papers? Looks like auntie beeb is in for a proper drubbing!

I work in a call center. My employers even tell me what to SAY!!

I just watch The Daily Show. It's all bullshit, but at least it's funny.

Not really. There are plenty of male slaves for starters.

hence "the closest thing"

Controlling people is great fun - that's why The Sims is the best selling computer games franchise of all time. Only people who can't think it isn't.

It turns out she did post a link to a reputable news agency

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4996410.stm

However, it completely contradicts her as it clearly states that the woman involved was willing participant and they were all just having a bit of fun basically. Some people were doing a bit of bondage and someone called the police. Stoopid.

Look, it's all just a bit of fun between consenting adults. I'm in a battle re-enactment group (RL), but have never actually stabbed anyone - we just pretend to a bit.

You looking for a job?

The point of my comment was that shouldn't a freewoman eschew slavery herself?

No one can be collared unless they consent to the roleplay. It's ridiculous to suggest otherwise. Some guy comes up to you and emotes collaring you - you can simply tp away, log off or ignore them (the first two being the most appropriate, since if you're there to stay it's because you want to be part of the roleplay).

Anyone who is weak willed enough to be brow-beaten over the internet into doing something they don't want to doesn't deserve to live anyway and would be doing the human race a favour by slitting their wrists.

No. No moreso than a free man should at any rate. Why would you assume that? You're assuming I think that a free woman should feel a sense of solidarity to her "sisters" I take it. Women, however, are just as capable of treating people as mere objects as men are.

What the Hell are you talking about!!!? I was using Freewoman in the Gorean sense, Mandy was talking about having a slave even though she is a Freewoman, and I was asking if that was contradictory according to the Tao of Gor.

/me gives you a smack upside your head

In roleplay based on the books, the above would be true. But, in practice the opposite is usually going to be the case, in most versions of online Gor. I'm sure I said, earlier in the thread, that the quickest way to get in deep shit in online Gor is to treat somebody else's slave in the manner in which kajirae are treated in the books.

For example, I remember one chat site offered an award for "The Most-Welcoming Home." For the most part, rape is rare in online Gor, FW cuddle and coddle kajirae, and other kajirae will treat them like *gags* "sisters."

Don't be smakin' me Connolly. Watch it.
A free woman owning slaves is perfectly acceptable in Gor - SL and the novels both - and is quite common in the novels. Norman remains mute on the statistics, but various critics have estimated that only about 5%-10% women in the Gor novels are actually slaves.

Well I didn't know that. That's why I asked you big lunkhead!

The other 90% are probably incredibly bored.

That's the novels I'm talking about.

The other 90% have husbands and are too busy cooking, cleaning and performing their bedroom duties to get bored. Which is as it should be.

Starts popping popcorn and icing down the cokes. Let the fireworks start!

Either Brenda hasn't seen my comment, or she agrees with me.

I'd like to think it's the latter.

Oh you poor, disillusioned man.

Okay - this is a bunch of nonsense.

Having read about a dozen of the novels Ill explain

First off:

Its just slaves compared to the Total population of women of the planet that is the 5-10% number,

Nearly EVERY SINGLE woman who is given a name in the books becomes a slave at some point during the story.

Free women who dont become slaves are like the red shirts in Star Trek - just extras. Atmosphere.



Secondly: The 90% are happy taking care of their husbands in the books is entirely inaccurate as well.

Great lengths are made of the idea that Free Women cant satisfy men in the bedroom, and of course if a Man can afford a slave to do the domestic duties he has one.


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People say that the books are badly written in that Norman spends huge sections of them talking about how Man and Women. Masters and Slaves interact and very little time getting on with the plot and the action.

I think there are a lot of people who arent interested in reading about relationships who skip over those parts.


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And finally Im going to assume your general sexist tone of "women should be in the kitchen" idea was either applying to Gor or was being sarcastic.

All 26 are available in world at Teletus and other city scriberies.