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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8271419"><p>this is where I disagree. The intentions of the writer matter a lot here. I addressed this earlier in the thread when I said writers often tackle the same theme to work through a creative idea or to grapple with something personal. Black box was the work of two writers. I think you can see a recurring theme like that and leap to a negative interpretation: the writer feels x about women or the writer is saying women are only good for y. Or you can be more charitable, even try to find out what what the author meant. For example a poster mentioned something about female domain lords who wanted babies but couldn’t have them, lost babies etc, and said it is saying women need a man and to have babies. I disagree. I think more likely one of the two writers had sone kind of experience that made those details come out in the writing (and I gave a personal example of my mother having a baby who died to illustrate how those kinds of things can work their way into your writing without being a message that the poster assumed).</p></blockquote><p></p>