Slashers of Gor

Okay -- yesterday's contextless link was contextless partly because I wasn't up to the task of giving context...

What happened was that james_nicoll mentioned that Dark Horse are reprinting the Gor novels. (If you don't already know about Gor, you can find out more than you ever wanted to by reading the comment thread to that post.) In the comment thread was a link to a critique series by bellatrys, and somewhere in *there* I found the link to the exciting new community "Slashers of Gor".

http://community.livejournal.com/slashersofgor/

The community is a piss-take, but there's also some serious discussion going on at Bellatrys' place. Under the very nice piece of slash art in this post there's a serious discussion of whether Norman's misogyny is an actual, real-life example of the closet queer who hates women and has a hyper-masculinised, mysogynistic attitude to sex. Something rang a bell with me -- the comment about not having ever knowingly encountered it in real life, but then one wouldn't if one's gay friends were happily out.