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My ideal fantasy girls are all between 17 and 23;

Try reading The Next One by Just Plain Bob and see if he can't convince you that a middle-aged hottie is much more sexy than a young bimbo.

Just because a horror author writes about Freddy Kreuger doesn't mean he wants to run around in the woods with a machete.

You are thinking of Jason. Freddy Kreuger invaded peoples dreams and had a glove with knives for fingers.

In the acknowledgments of his 2003 novel Conquistador, S.M. Stirling wrote:

And a special acknowledgment to the author of Niven's Law: "There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author. The term is 'idiot.'"

{Niven's Law: "There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author. The term is 'idiot.'"}

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Niven's heroes tended to be individualistic & libertarian. If you look into his background he is a hereditary member of the Proto-ARM, so it appears to be true for him.
Cordwainer Smith was a hereditary member of the foreign service, his Godfather was Sun Yat-sen. The man who wrote Psychological Warfare also wrote the Ballard of Lost C'mel, about the Underpeople seeking freedom.

Jerry Pournelle was an active communist, at least for a while. His Empire of Man series is militaristic and pro-monarchy.

Nick Bourgas was associated with the Church of Satan, producing films for them. Their public doctrine states that racism is unacceptable. Bourgas was also known under the pen name A Wyatt Man, producing racist cartoons.

I knew of a couple of commentators for Murdoch who were hard lefties but wrote hard right stories for his market.

As for Hollyweird, the public image of actors and actresses is as carefully collated as the public image of the actors we get to vote for in Congress and Parliaments. Rock Hudson was a ladies man until he died of AIDS. Bearding contracts are a thing, its obvious from the women in Hollywood who rotate through a list of actors and top level athletes on a 12 or 24 month cycle. When tens of millions in endorsement contracts ride on being seen as a straight male, paying a woman to be your public companion, dote on you, then read a book while your boyfriend is visiting, makes financial sense.

Auditions will naturally favour actors and actresses who have characteristic matches to the role they're auditioning for.

Really?

Isn't it more likely that auditions will favour actors who can ACT the part they are auditing for? It is after all called acting.

Isn't it more likely that auditions will favour actors who can ACT the part they are auditing for? It is after all called acting.

There's also a thing called type casting.

What did you think I meant by characteristic?

Umm, actually I thought you meant characteristic.

Method acting is a lot easier if you're already living the method.

If you are cast to play an alcoholic drug addict homosexual and you actually ARE an alcoholic drug addict homosexual, you are not acting at all. You are especially NOT method acting.

Method would be for a tea total drug free straight actor to begin drinking, taking drugs and bedding other guys so as to fully inhabiting the role of the character.

Whilst method acting is is an emotion-oriented technique, there are numerous method actors who go to physical extremes preparing for a role. Everything from getting multiple piercings to serious weight loss or gain, etc.

YOU never need to apologise.

That made me wonder.

Why ask me? My chromosomes match.

Do trans men know what they've done wrong or, like biological men,

I get really confused on all this, but I thought "trans men" really are "biological men" -- xy chromosomes, male genitalia, all the effects on size, msuculature, bone density, etc. that males get during puberty. The just "believe" they are women. Have I got that wrong?

You have that wrong, backwards to be precise. What you describe, a biological male that believes they are a woman is a "trans woman", a "trans man" is a biological woman who believes they are a man.

You have that wrong, backwards to be precise.

Oops. Yeah. You're right. See? VERY confusing.

I think the point Niven was trying to make is about readers who assume they know the the opinions and beliefs of an author based only on the opinions and beliefs of characters the author created for a novel without any evidence outside that novel.

In other words, just because an author has a main character who states they believe that individuals from a certain neighborhood should feel privileged to be slaves in all but name to a certain 'elite' group does not automatically mean that the author shares that opinion.

slaves in all but name

Welcome to the Army, draftee.

We actually talked about this in my psychology class, when the whole incest-theme became popular with the first season of GoT (back in 2011).

What's GoT?

Game of Thrones.

defecation

2,4,6,8; some people need to defecate.

Your a nation is more popular, however. The GO Pee is somewhat more popular than the Demo craps. Though this tends to change from election to election.

Is sues

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