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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: Ilaine who wrote (33030)7/29/1999 7:42:00 PM
From: nihil  Read Replies (1) of 71178
 
It's actually an interesting premise. I read a study of what happened to long-term kidnapped white women. Those who survived were often converted to the tribe -- and refused to return (e.g. Dances with Wolves). The attitude that women who were raped or seduced outside of marriage were "impure" is the premise of many romantic novels -- Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary --- leading to totally unnecessary (IMO) suicides. No one, to my knowledge, ever sweriously proposed that a man who was impure was somehow unsuitable for polite marriage as long as he was good looking, rich, and nobly born. He was just a good catch. I hate fiction. The only thing worse is social history.
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