Why shouldn't middle-aged mothers get a wish-fulfilment character, you sad little bigot? Everyone else does. I realised this as she was evolving on the page, and you know what? I fucking embrace it. You know what? Yeah, Zamira Drakasha, middle-aged pirate mother of two, is a wish-fulfilment fantasy. "First, I will pretend that your last sentence makes sense because it will save us all time," responded Lynch. It is unrealistic wish-fulfilment for you and your readers to have so many female pirates, especially if you want to be politically correct about it!" The reader wrote: "Real sea pirates could not be controlled by women, they were vicous rapists and murderers and I am sorry to say it was a man's world. Criticised by a reader for including characters who are "unrealistic stereotypes of political correctness" – the reader objected in particular to the character Zamira, a middle-aged pirate mother – Lynch went to town. Anyway, I'm rambling on about Lynch because I was reminded again how much I like him by a pointer from the (always excellent) MobyLives blog.
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