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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 9405269" data-attributes="member: 4534">Heck, our own biases (or experiences if we'd like to call it that) influence how we interpret a work.  I know more than one obsessive Joss Whedon fan who now think he's a hack because they found out he's a raging jerk.  In my Gender and Science Fiction course, there was a short story we read where I interpreted it as being about miscegenation and another student thought it was about sexism.  If I were to have made the "he didn't really mean that" argument to one of my professors they would have asked for evidence to back my claim up.  Gygax said it, and if anyone wants to argue he didn't really mean it then they need to provide some sort of evidence showing he didn't really mean it.</blockquote>