On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 12:30:17AM -0600, Lydia Nickerson <lydy at demesne.com> wrote: > At 12:22 AM -0600 2/16/05, Matthew Hunter wrote: > >Thirded. If anything, that aspect of the series is somewhat > >underdeveloped; it's important in one fairly vital way, but the > >reader is not really given the opportunity to understand why the > >character reacts that way, nor does that aspect of her > >personality grow or change detectably. > She was born that way. That's the way her nervous system works. > "Kushiel's Dart" is the visible sign of her physical nature. It's > not a personality trait, any more than tasting cilantro as soupy or > being color blind is a personality trait. You were (presumably) born a woman. Would you say that your understanding of, reaction to, and behavior concerning your gender and sexuality are the same today as what you were born with? -- 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/weblog/index.jsp