My response to this post has somehow gone astray. Rewriting/reposting here:
Thanks for reposting that, that's useful to have.
Please! Call me Shane!
Reading it back, I can see how that post might, coming at the time it did, have been problematic for many. However, one interesting thing about it is that it states that "Deliverance is not sexist, misogynist [etc]" Which suggests that this post can't be an assertion that anyone who doesn't see Deliverance as sexist is stupid, since by definition that would include Wendy herself.
The crux of the matter as I see it lies in the "Wolf or Sheep" question. As I said, I believe the answer to be "both,"-- after all, in Deliverance itself and in the Deliverance thread, everybody acted like wolves and like sheep at different times. That's what it is to be human.
The nature of riddles is to be obscure, and to require analysis to puzzle out the meaning. Which is what I am trying to do here.
Shane
"We were bait in a trap you laid for him, Avon"--Soolin