28 Sep
2001
28 Sep
'01
12:54 a.m.
Jacqui writes:
I sometimes see Assassin as having 'sexist' overtones - Servalan's remark about simpering Piri being a credit to the female sex (rearranging quote), & there is a remark by Neebrox etc
This might be a case of me seeing what I wanted to see, but I always took Servalan's remark to mean that she knew Piri's true character and admired her tactic of using the men's chivalrous and sexist nature against them. Although now that I think about it, Servalan needn't be a feminist, after all, most historian feel Elizabeth I wasn't either.
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