But of course he does. I mean really. You surely didn't expect him to listen calmly and carefully and intelligently examine how his biases make the book sound like entertainment for the KKK would you?
Reading some of the comments there (I clicked on both links, omg), I think the idea is that she used honey (by bees) as lube.
Ghastly as it is.
I read some of the Xanth novels, and remember the 'humans as cows' story from Ellison's anthology, but gave up on him fairly early in the Xanth series as the fixation on panties got more and more obscene--well before this kind of crap. Thank heavens.
The manly male hero stumbles into an alternate universe in which some human beings are "bred" and used as animals (as far as I recall, everybody is white, i.e. it's default whiteness) by other humans, literally, he finds himself in a barn in which the inhabitants are humans who have been raised in sensory deprivation tanks or something. He pretends to be a farm hand: he's assigned to take a young 'heifer' (I'm fairly sure the names are animal names) to the 'bull.' (He has sex with her himself on the way--she's so in heat she's rubbing all over him, but it doesn't mean much because she's so physically changed). There's a milking machine, I think. The women/cows are physically changed (huge breasts); the male/bull has a huge (wait for it) penis. None of them have speech because, as we see near the end, he's given a newborn baby whose hands are bound and tongue is slit to put in a sensory deprivation kind of tank (impression is that there's a breeding program PLUS sensory deprivation and no education)--but he grabs baby BOY and gets back to his timeline, and finds himself in a barn with a bunch of cow/cows, meditates on morality. I read the story over thirty years ago, but the appalling details are rather horrifyingly clear.
That's more or less it, although for extra EWWWWWW HELL NAW there's a lot of attention paid to the teenage-cow-girl's resemblance to the sexually-frustrated narrator's hottie bosslady who won't give him the time of day. And don't forget the smug little author's notes about how he was deliberately trying to be shocking to make a point about animal rights and vegetarianism! Because gosh, we wouldn't want anyone to get distracted by how all the lovingly detailed descriptions of naked, mindless, horny women with ridiculously exaggerated breasts comes across exactly like really specialized fetish porn.
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Date: 2010-01-27 08:08 pm (UTC)Piers Anthony flips out all over the places over the idea that the books has skeevy race issues. ONLY RACISTS THINK THAT.
RACISTS WITH HONEY
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Date: 2010-01-27 08:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-27 08:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-27 08:24 pm (UTC)Ghastly as it is.
I read some of the Xanth novels, and remember the 'humans as cows' story from Ellison's anthology, but gave up on him fairly early in the Xanth series as the fixation on panties got more and more obscene--well before this kind of crap. Thank heavens.
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Date: 2010-01-27 09:33 pm (UTC)no subject
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The manly male hero stumbles into an alternate universe in which some human beings are "bred" and used as animals (as far as I recall, everybody is white, i.e. it's default whiteness) by other humans, literally, he finds himself in a barn in which the inhabitants are humans who have been raised in sensory deprivation tanks or something. He pretends to be a farm hand: he's assigned to take a young 'heifer' (I'm fairly sure the names are animal names) to the 'bull.' (He has sex with her himself on the way--she's so in heat she's rubbing all over him, but it doesn't mean much because she's so physically changed). There's a milking machine, I think. The women/cows are physically changed (huge breasts); the male/bull has a huge (wait for it) penis. None of them have speech because, as we see near the end, he's given a newborn baby whose hands are bound and tongue is slit to put in a sensory deprivation kind of tank (impression is that there's a breeding program PLUS sensory deprivation and no education)--but he grabs baby BOY and gets back to his timeline, and finds himself in a barn with a bunch of cow/cows, meditates on morality. I read the story over thirty years ago, but the appalling details are rather horrifyingly clear.
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Date: 2010-01-27 09:49 pm (UTC)My lunch was too yummy for you to be trying to get me to vomit it back up.