From: nicky.matthews@btinternet.com   
      
   On Saturday, September 13, 2014 2:45:53 AM UTC+1, Jymesion wrote:   
   > On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 02:14:41 -0700 (PDT), Nicky   
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   > >On Thursday, September 11, 2014 12:11:08 AM UTC+1, Jymesion wrote:   
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   > >> On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 06:40:26 -0700 (PDT), Nicky   
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   > >> She implied he's a cockroach when he walked in.    
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   > >Well she seems antagonistic at the beginning but then seems to me to chat   
   quite amicably.   
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   > I was hoping the way she phrased it would clue the reader to her   
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   > personality.   
      
   Perhaps it does for some people - it just didn't work for me. I would have   
   believed the  sexual politics of the encounter had it been set in the past   
   when a female secretary might have felt obliged to put up with a lot more shit   
   from a male: it didn't    
   ring true for me as a contemporary encounter. It does of course depend where   
   its set. There are probably places where sexual politics remain in the   
   fifties, it would just take more world building for readers like me to believe   
   in them in a contemporary    
   story. It's just a data point and if its not important in the story probably   
   not worth angsting over at this stage. It would only be an issue if all your   
   characters were like that.   
   Nicky   
      
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