>>And since "hard-boiled detectives" are
indifferent
>> to violence, I really don't think that there are
any female hard-boiled
>> types. Tough, unsentimental, yes. But
"indifferent to violence"? I
>> think not.
I don't think of hardboiled characters as indifferent to
violence. They may
not be naive about violence. They surely encounter plenty of
it, but I think
the term 'indifferent' is off-target. Indifference to
violence is more the
domain of a sociopath.
Sch.
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