Anita Blake & Phd ruminations
Apr. 2nd, 2007 02:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jenkWay back in the early books, when she wasn't having sex every few hours, Anita would get hit on with various regularity.
According to some reviews I've read, this is proof that she's just too attractive to be "real".
I never read it that way. Why? Because usually she was in a sexual situation (strip club) or the only woman in a macho situation (crime scene).
In a sexual situation, flattery - or assuming everyone is there for sex - is roughly par for the course.
A macho situation, aka a mostly-male environment, is different. It's a case where having boobs (and not being tall) means you don't blend in. You're different. A guy who is used to only seeing women when he's trying to get laid may not know how to react to a gal in "his turf". Come-ons can be a reflex, or to remind the gal that she doesn't belong. It can be verbal hazing, harassment. Or, if you kind of like her (Zerbrowski) it's something to joke about.
So why I am relating this? Well, I'm wondering if a much ealier version of Anita might have reacted like to a mostly-male environment this grad student. I know I did, 2nd day of System Programming, in 1989.
According to some reviews I've read, this is proof that she's just too attractive to be "real".
I never read it that way. Why? Because usually she was in a sexual situation (strip club) or the only woman in a macho situation (crime scene).
In a sexual situation, flattery - or assuming everyone is there for sex - is roughly par for the course.
A macho situation, aka a mostly-male environment, is different. It's a case where having boobs (and not being tall) means you don't blend in. You're different. A guy who is used to only seeing women when he's trying to get laid may not know how to react to a gal in "his turf". Come-ons can be a reflex, or to remind the gal that she doesn't belong. It can be verbal hazing, harassment. Or, if you kind of like her (Zerbrowski) it's something to joke about.
So why I am relating this? Well, I'm wondering if a much ealier version of Anita might have reacted like to a mostly-male environment this grad student. I know I did, 2nd day of System Programming, in 1989.
