1/24/08
Man, I'd like to write some good science fiction in the same style used back in the late forties and fifties of the twentieth century. My lunchtime reading material has been volume one of William Tenn's science fiction Immodest Proposals. This stuff is seriously good, has the same je ne se quois about it that says this is the future of the past without being hokey.
Man, I'd like to write some good science fiction in the same style used back in the late forties and fifties of the twentieth century. My lunchtime reading material has been volume one of William Tenn's science fiction Immodest Proposals. This stuff is seriously good, has the same je ne se quois about it that says this is the future of the past without being hokey.
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There's a story on Yahoo News, not providing a link because these links die faster than a Christmas puppy, about how the ancient Mayans sacrificed boys not virgin girls. It's from Reuters so you might want to check there if you're really, really interested. First I need to mention that the headline is wrong and is "Ancient Maya scarified boys not virgin girls: study". A hearty laugh.
Why is it important to say the lolis were virgins? Were the boys not virgins? Is the writer overstating a point where the term virgin was once synonymous with the concept of "little girl" without any sexual connotations? Perhaps the writer is trying to insinuate that the boys didn't die virgins? If that's the case then who took their virginity and how? Or is a young man's sexuality unimportant because males are supposed to be fucking and sucking as soon as humanly possible otherwise they're not really masculine?
Also why the hell did they sacrifice children? Were the gods of Mayans inveterate pedophiles who could only be mollified by the offering of children?
Anyway this innocuous article raises more questions than it answers!
