martha -
you didn't miss anything - i think there was something
obvious i didn't say. what i think i mean is that female PIs
seem, to me, to generally lack a real sex drive - something
that provides our animal with the necessary degree of
fearlessness? recklessness? stupidity? that seems like a
requisite for a PI. that person, male or female, has to have
the biology of not being too afraid of the unknown. that
adventureousness seems to be powered by testosterone. so in
my theory, sexual aggressivenness is the thing that makes a
PI the particualr creature that s/he is, yet i haven't read
any female PI writers whose female protagnoists have that
quality. i can seldom buy them as people who would plausibly
put themselves into high risk situations just for money or
curiousity. if a woman has an extra dose of testosterone,
which some do, then if she's a PI, she's also going to have
an active sexuality, i would think, just like the guys.in
hardboiled/noir/crime fiction women protagonists are often
neuters, and to me that's why they don't work so well.
At 07:18 AM 2/23/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>uh...i don't see how heterosexual=male. am i missing
something obvious
>here?
>
>martha
>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>>
>> here's something to discuss. i was just mulling
over in my mind
>> the general
>> and consistent failure, in my eyes, of female
writers to produce female
>> protagonists with any sort of real visceral
fortitude of the sort you see
>> in the archetypal male PI. i think this missing
element is commonly
>> identified as testosterone. does anyone
agree/disagree that a good PI has
>> to have a strong heterosexual
orientation?
>> http:/www.dennismcmillan.com
>>
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