Misuse of words, or Did she really out him?

[karmyn75.livejournal.com]

As we all know, LKH has a strange way with words and misusing them in amusing ways. There's the infamous lose/loose, the new air/err, and my new favorite, the overuse and abuse of 'homophobe'.
I'm the first to admit I have no sort of gaydar at all. I mean, even after I saw a photo of a friend in a newspaper story about the university glbt club I still wasn't sure he was gay. Now he's in the middle of a sex change.
Anyway, it seems to me that LKH is misusing the word homophobe. When Richard is uncomfortable at seeing JC naked, Anita says he's homophobic. Maybe he just doesn't like seeing other men naked all the time. Nothing homophobic about that. The use of the word homophobe heavily implies that JC is totally and completely gay. Of course the readers know he and the other men are, but LKH has been denying this all along. Now she outs him.

Comments

[xtricks.livejournal.com]

It sounds to me like she's trying to paint anyone (espeically folks she dosen't like) who might be uncomfortable with what she's pushing as fun, intimate, sexy and progressive as 'bad' by using current catch terms that suggest bigotry, conservatism, etc.

As to what her writing reveals about her thougths on actual vairant sex, like homosexuality ... she seems to belive that queers can be cured by the love of a good woman and that lesbians are threatening to the free and open sexuality of straight women. Because, if there were any lesbians frequenting the AB books, who knows what the ardeur might make her do? :o

I'm still of the opinion that she's got the mentality of a fifties housewife tryign to show how wicked she is.

[frabjously.livejournal.com]

Well... there was Sylvie, the lesbian werewolf. But I can't remember the last time we saw her. The Killing Dance?

[panicqueen.livejournal.com]

I thought that Sylvie was one of the best little-used characters in the books. She was sexy and powerful. She would make such a good, strong lupa. :( Fare thee well, Sylvie.