R.L. White > Recent Status Updates

I love the prose and mixed media, but I'm really not liking the supernatural stuff. I'm hoping it's going to be a red herring or a plot twist, because I love murder mysteries/thrillers but not if the answer is 'the devil made them do it'.

*squints* are...they in a film? are they being filmed?

That was...a lot of overly easy tying up of the second book's cliffhanger & problems.

'no one seems to know when pink was declared an official feminine colour'

Late 19th century due to Freud. Then made worse by the Holocaust and gay men being identified with pink triangles.

'only very recently have a few men become bold enough to wear pink'

pink was regarded as an acceptably masculine colour before this, as it was close to red. Men wore it all the way up to the 1920s. You know nothing Walker

author claims little mermaid clearly about 'the masculine idea that women must endure pain in order to be worthy of love' OR. OR IT WAS THE FACT THAT HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON FREQUENTLY PINED FOR OTHER PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T LOVE HIM BACK- INCLUDING OTHER *MEN* - AND USED HIS PAINFUL EXPERIENCES AS INSPIRATION

also in an earlier story she portrayed a mentally-disabled man as a rapist. why? god knows

Seriously? She marries two women to each other and *still* emphasises that they're straight? This author keeps patting herself on the back for being a feminist, but her work rarely breaks boundaries (and the little paragraphs explaining each story's changes are extremely obnoxious. We're not stupid, and those often incorrect cultural assumptions – no heels are not 'western footbinding'!)