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- From: morpheus@cco.caltech.edu (Kynn Bartlett)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.pern
- Subject: Re: honorifics, MU*s, bronze/gold pairings
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 19:55:00 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- In article <724869966snz@keris.demon.co.uk> chris@keris.demon.co.uk (Chris Croughton) writes:
- >In article <1gsvomINN8e2@gap.caltech.edu> morpheus@cco.caltech.edu writes:
- >>Well, then, not even using it to justify golds for males and bronzes for
- >>females, what reason -do- you claim for letting females impress browns
- >>and blues, as is regularly done on PernMUSH?
- >>I see absolutely no textual support for this practice. There is one
- >>(1) example of a female impressing a _green_ dragon. We -never- see
- >>a female impressing a brown or blue.
- >>Be careful in your arguments; it's likely that the same things you say
- >>on this subject could be used to justify female/bronze or male/gold
- >>pairings.
-
- >IMO the real reason is because Anne said so! I don't know about the
- >MU*s, but certainly to the offline fannish Weyrs she has been very clear
- >that the gold/female and bronze/male pairings are absolute, whereas
- >there is no gender discrimination for brown/blue/green.
-
- When/where/what? I've -never- seen anything from Anne saying "females
- can ride browns, but they can't ride bronzes" or something to that
- effect.
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