On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 06:12:15PM -0500, Gaertk at aol.com wrote: > The thing you have to understand about this series is that in > that universe, it is not possible for men and women to > cooperate or even understand each other. This must be emphasized -- it is literally *impossible*. The two sexes have two separate-but-equal sources of magic. The greatest works of magic were worked in cooperation with both sources, but that has not been permitted for about 3000 years. The male half of that power has been "tainted" by the Dark Lord for the same amount of time. The nature and behavior of those two power sources is explicitly described as sex-linked. In other words, the greatest accomplishment of Evil in this world is to create a situation of female dominance and gender role conflict throughout human society. That doesn't stop a lot of the female characters from being hideously fucking annoying. It's gotten to the point where I wish Jordan would just kill most of them off and rebuild from the ruins somehow. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp