Comments on: A Gorean Feminist’s Guide to Second Life Gor

By: Aneesh

Aneesh — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 16:40:11 +0000

I sit here reading these comments about gor and what John Normandy wrote but I have yet to see the actual truth about it all. The gor books are fiction. Lets define fiction, fiction means lies not the truth deception. So btb or disney or gor evolved dosn’t matter what ever gor your in your roleplaying in a lie. Best I seen said so far is that gor is like a theater with actors and actresses. That is exactly what it is. What makes sl gor so diverse is everyone’s interpretation of the books or online experience. I don’t care what role play you do be realistic about it.
You can role play being a plank on the floor and it is still role play. As far as A Gorean Feminist’s guide. Honestly the author did well to explain what types of sims and how you should act. Gor in sl is diverse being a female avtar either male real life or female real life you need to adjust and understand.

By: Merla

Merla — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:09:35 +0000

Well that didn’t work. Came here looking for a couple answers and though I had some, when everyone started commenting about how the writer wasn’t a feminist…or the article wasn’t feminist. I guess if you want feminism you have to go FAR away from anything Gorean.

Not at all interested in playing house with a bunch of misogynistic people. Let us all just admit that there is no REAL place for feminists in Gor and therefore “any opinion that a woman might have” (that wasn’t dictated and authorized by her misogynistic male master) is FEMINISM.

So much for the suspension of disbelief in role-play. Just wish the Gorean Meter system wasn’t tied to the Gorean name.

~Merla~

By: Mereniel

Mereniel — Tue, 03 May 2011 14:31:41 +0000

i did not choose to leave a website link, and the “leave a reply” form stated that my email would not be published. What does it do? it converts the email to a link. Why do this? Is it possible for a forum reader to pull my email address out of this link? And there is no way to delete my post, even though it is listed as awaiting moderation. I don’t like this.

By: Mereniel

Mereniel — Tue, 03 May 2011 14:17:47 +0000

The man referenced in the article is not representative of the BDSM community or the Gorean lifestyle community. He is just a sexual predator. Remember when people blamed rock music for violent crimes among young people? Then when violent video games became popular, people starting claiming the games were at fault. Not so. It is the individual who is responsible for his own actions. Not the music, not the game and not the books.

By: Yep

Yep — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 03:34:35 +0000

I hope that this gorean gets the chair. http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2011/04/john_joseph_hauff_66-year-old.php

I wonder if this weirdo gorean played in SL.

By: Tessa

Tessa — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 23:47:03 +0000

@Kitten Jigsaw,

It’s possible to be a fully empowered human being 100% capable of making one’s own choices, and choose to give that power over to someone else. This is not anti-feminist if a lesbian or gay couple practices BDSM, and it’s not anti-feminist if a straight culture practices it either, regardless of who dominates or who submits.

In real life, anytime I submit to someone, I can always choose to withdraw my consent if I want. But I might want a fantasy where I don’t *get* to choose. There’s nothing wrong with this fantasy, as a fantasy. And living out that fantasy in a virtual world means I have many avenues of recourse if I don’t like the way it turns out, up to and including simply not logging in anymore.

Yes, John Norman is anti-feminist in real life. Yes, many people who roleplay as Gorean are anti-feminist in real life. But the popularity of Gor in a safe virtual space is not a triumph of anti-feminism, just a triumph of people having politically incorrect fantasy lives while still living in a real-life world where we can count on our human rights being upheld thanks to the fact that feminism has won that battle so completely that those rights are not even in doubt anymore.

By: Sandi-lou

Sandi-lou — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 05:05:48 +0000

To me the Gorean sims in SL are like live theatre in the round. They are open 24/7 and allow the person to come in and visit, roleplay, get in a fight or even do a bit of furring. Every “actor” has a role and access to the master scripts (the John Norman novels). You can lose yourself for an hour or two totally immersed in a drama where time is suspended and you become that person on the screen.

…Shoot, you can even chase vulos if you desire.

Perhaps that is going too far but if you know the content of the books and follow the general rules, you can have a ton of fun playing with the interior of another’s “little grey cells”.

grins*

By: kayakyak

kayakyak — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 23:47:10 +0000

Norman was a total reactionary – the first book, published in ’67, is quite mild compared to the rest of the series. Norman’s obsession with pure domination increases with each book in direct relation to the progress of the women’s movement around him. He was an hysteric really, as well as a piss poor writer.

By: Pugiron

Pugiron — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 04:01:12 +0000

Bublesport, you obviously know nothign about Gor as the books were written by John Norman-BADLY. They are horrible books, not because of the reaterded philosophy, byt because they are boring, long winded, contradict each other, filled with cultures directly lifted from earth history then given silly “alien” names and just damn stupid.

By: sativa marabana

sativa marabana — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:00:34 +0000

can anyone tell me this…. sinc3e when has offering a free woman Larma Juice been wrong ???
is a woman drinking larma juice suggestful and courting a collar..
this slave had her head scraggted for the mere offer of a serve ..