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   From: et472@ncf.ca   
      
   On Wed, 22 Jul 2015, Ubiquitous wrote:   
      
   > et472@ncf.ca wrote:   
   >> On Wed, 22 Jul 2015, A Friend wrote:   
   >>> In article , Ubiquitous   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >   
   >>>> While I wouldn't call Xena a "superheroine", I seem to recall she was a   
   >>>> demigawd, possibly the daughter of Ares.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> The possibility was raised in the third-season opener "The Furies" that   
   >>> Xena had been fathered by Ares, but the matter was never brought up   
   >>> again.  As far as anybody knows, Xena grew up as a normal human child   
   >>> in Amphipolis, where she was one of three siblings.   
   >>   
   >> I thought she was an Amazon.  I remember episodew where they went back to   
   >> see her family.   
   >>   
   >> Is that the "lesbian subtext"?   
   >   
   > No, that was with her best fiend and travelling buddy, Gabreiele(?).   
   >   
   I gather that.   
      
   But women living alone in groups certainly invoke the notion of lesbians.   
      
   All that Island of Lesbos thing, and then I don't think it was stratight   
   women forty years ago who invoked Amazons as imagery to live up to.   
      
      Michael   
      
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