"Andrew Williams" awilliams@daikin.com.au wrote:

Jacqui wrote:

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I sometimes see Assassain as having 'sexist' overtones - Servalan's

remark about simpering Piri >being a credit to the female sex (rearranging quote), & there is a remark by Neebrox etc

I think the real sexism is the fact that we are meant to automatically assume the tall man is the assassin over the small female. This kind of thing happens several times in B7, eg when Avalon is revealed, because it is assumed we will never suspect that a female could be the leader, infallible assassin, etc.

I was just taking the first example that came to mind - one could add 'Bartolomew' as well. The point I was making about Powerplay was that it was overtly presenting sexism etc for discussion and, if this #was# intention, it should be taken accordingly (B7 does do this in other cases - eg what 'rights' do the Decimas and their creators have once the Decimas become independently sentient entities?)

Jacqui

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