2.) Female werewolves are extensions of their mates. (Again, I hate that word.) They lose their standing and gain/are reduced to his standing. (See above rant for a refresher on this point.) This is spelled out in the one Mercy book that I read.
3.) This imputed standing is also applied to female human mates... and to human men who 'take the female role' in a same-sex relationship with a male werewolf. While I am not a gay man, I strongly suspect that no gay man wants to be accorded the social standing of X's wife... especially when that role is considered lesser/subservient to the set of genitals that he was born with. And by the way, none of the werewolves or Mercy thought to tell the guy that he was his boyfriend's wife and thus subject to all of their weird cultural bullshit. Nor did they bother telling him that he was ranked a Second Class Packmate: Female. What about the humans that don't want in on their significant others' gang? I mean, they say there's a tithe to the packmaster to be in his special group but you know who else pays a 'tithe'? All those people in old time mobster movies who pay not to have their businesses burnt down. Yeah, through that lens, Bran/Adam is less of a strong leader and more of a murderous werewolf-godfather.
4.) And there's also this bullshit (in the novel I read) about how one of the gay guys is a lawyer who dresses like a flamboyant eyesore and how it's short-sighted of his clients/other attorneys to judge him for being so brightly colored and out of the closet. And I'm stuck thinking, "A, don't bring your sexual orientation's stereotypes to work. No one wants to know. You aren't that interesting. B, if they're judging him, it's NOT on the gay thing so much as the Dressed Inappropriately thing. By the narrative's descriptions, he's dressed inappropriately for his surroundings, meeting with clients, the office, and going to court. Of course, they're judging him and finding him wanting." And, despite what Mercy and the author seem to think, it's not discrimination when the people judging a gay man are completely uninterested in his desire to kiss men but vehemently opposed to (& judging him for) his hideous pink fetish-wear cowboy outfit.
5.) While I'm thinking about it, aside from the hostile blonde werewolf, there were no other women in the book that I read. None that I can remember, at any rate. I distinctly remember that the Creepy Sexy Timez between Mercy and Adam took place while Adam's daughter was away for the night... mostly because it seemed weird to me in the context of the narrative. (And I don't really remember why. Just that the entire date night struck me as weirdness that veered into creepy as hell.)
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Date: 2013-02-06 08:54 am (UTC)3.) This imputed standing is also applied to female human mates... and to human men who 'take the female role' in a same-sex relationship with a male werewolf. While I am not a gay man, I strongly suspect that no gay man wants to be accorded the social standing of X's wife... especially when that role is considered lesser/subservient to the set of genitals that he was born with. And by the way, none of the werewolves or Mercy thought to tell the guy that he was his boyfriend's wife and thus subject to all of their weird cultural bullshit. Nor did they bother telling him that he was ranked a Second Class Packmate: Female. What about the humans that don't want in on their significant others' gang? I mean, they say there's a tithe to the packmaster to be in his special group but you know who else pays a 'tithe'? All those people in old time mobster movies who pay not to have their businesses burnt down. Yeah, through that lens, Bran/Adam is less of a strong leader and more of a murderous werewolf-godfather.
4.) And there's also this bullshit (in the novel I read) about how one of the gay guys is a lawyer who dresses like a flamboyant eyesore and how it's short-sighted of his clients/other attorneys to judge him for being so brightly colored and out of the closet. And I'm stuck thinking, "A, don't bring your sexual orientation's stereotypes to work. No one wants to know. You aren't that interesting. B, if they're judging him, it's NOT on the gay thing so much as the Dressed Inappropriately thing. By the narrative's descriptions, he's dressed inappropriately for his surroundings, meeting with clients, the office, and going to court. Of course, they're judging him and finding him wanting." And, despite what Mercy and the author seem to think, it's not discrimination when the people judging a gay man are completely uninterested in his desire to kiss men but vehemently opposed to (& judging him for) his hideous pink fetish-wear cowboy outfit.
5.) While I'm thinking about it, aside from the hostile blonde werewolf, there were no other women in the book that I read. None that I can remember, at any rate. I distinctly remember that the Creepy Sexy Timez between Mercy and Adam took place while Adam's daughter was away for the night... mostly because it seemed weird to me in the context of the narrative. (And I don't really remember why. Just that the entire date night struck me as weirdness that veered into creepy as hell.)