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   From: olympiada2007@gmail.com   
      
   Midwinter wrote:   
   > "Tom"  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Their sex is just an allegory prompted by the macho attitude that Greeks   
   >> (and many other Mediterraneans) have always fallen prey to.   
   >   
   > I'm not sure what relevance the attitude of the ancient Greeks towards the   
   > sexes has here.   
   >   
   > arewhanariki stated that she needed a man to be her muse.  She could have   
   > said 'inspiration'; but she chose to use the word 'muse'.   
   >   
   > I would probably have left that comment alone, assuming that she didn't   
   > mean the term in its literal, mythological sense.  Medusa, however, decided   
   > to pick up on it.   
   >   
   > 'oldwifetale' then objected to Medusa's objection and claimed that men   
   > could be inspiring, too.  So they can.  But as Medusa rightly said, the   
   > Muses were female.  I don't particularly care WHY they were.  As far as I'm   
   > concerned there are gods and goddesses, and both varieties have influence   
   > over both sexes of human - at least within their own area of authority.   
   >   
   I no longer need a man to be my muse. I have become my own muse, for the   
   time being, and someone else's. He is going to photograph me for my own   
   work and sketch me for his.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)