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    1. Emily Nussbaum‏Verified account @emilynussbaum 22 Oct 2016
      Replying to @hodgman @magiciansbook

      It has & it’s generally shown then enjoying it the same way men do, which is to me the “tell” that the idea is off.

      2 replies 1 retweet 31 likes
    2. John "bit.ly/dicktown” Hodgman‏Verified account @hodgman 22 Oct 2016
      Replying to @emilynussbaum @magiciansbook

      I guess if you as guest are the exception to the rule of utter male dominance it COULD be fun?

      4 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
    3. Emily Nussbaum‏Verified account @emilynussbaum 22 Oct 2016
      Replying to @hodgman @magiciansbook

      & to me the idea that women would be all, Ooh, an old-timey brothel of bitter slave-hookers! Love it! Is just silly.

      1 reply 1 retweet 55 likes
    4. John "bit.ly/dicktown” Hodgman‏Verified account @hodgman 22 Oct 2016
      Replying to @emilynussbaum

      totally

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    5. Linda Holmes‏Verified account @lindaholmes 22 Oct 2016
      Replying to @hodgman @emilynussbaum

      You're both so right. The whole idea that the Wild West brothel is the foundational human fantasy is itself fantasy.

      4 replies 0 retweets 39 likes
    6. John "bit.ly/dicktown” Hodgman‏Verified account @hodgman 22 Oct 2016
      Replying to @lindaholmes @nprmonkeysee @emilynussbaum

      but it just might be the common fantasy of the juvenile banker creeps who can afford to go there.

      3 replies 0 retweets 14 likes
    7. Emily Nussbaum‏Verified account @emilynussbaum 22 Oct 2016
      Replying to @hodgman @nprmonkeysee

      a park for a larger moneyed audience — i.e. analogous to HBO subscribers, which is why it feels so overtly meta.

      2 replies 0 retweets 21 likes
    8. John "bit.ly/dicktown” Hodgman‏Verified account @hodgman 22 Oct 2016
      Replying to @emilynussbaum @nprmonkeysee

      I hadn't thought about that!

      2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    9. Emily Nussbaum‏Verified account @emilynussbaum 22 Oct 2016
      Replying to @hodgman @nprmonkeysee

      I honestly think that’s the central subject of the show. An anxiety dream about making prestige exploitainment.

      3 replies 5 retweets 60 likes
    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Oct 2016
      Replying to @emilynussbaum @hodgman @nprmonkeysee

      Don't steal my thunder, Nussbaum! (I have a piece coming out making this point).

      3 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Oct 2016
      Replying to @HeerJeet @emilynussbaum and

      But, yeah, what makes WW interesting is its an HBO show criticizing HBO shows.

      6:57 AM - 22 Oct 2016
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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Oct 2016
          Replying to @HeerJeet @emilynussbaum and

          The world-making of the computer scientists making WW is same process as making, say, Game of Thrones

          1 reply 2 retweets 6 likes
        3. 忍者の神 Marxist-Yeagerist ⌬‏ @delmoi 22 Oct 2016
          Replying to @HeerJeet @emilynussbaum and

          well, it's more like a video game.

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Oct 2016
          Replying to @HeerJeet @emilynussbaum and

          And prevalence of sex workers in WW is in part comment on how prostitutes used in Game of Thrones

          2 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
        3. Emily Nussbaum‏Verified account @emilynussbaum 22 Oct 2016
          Replying to @HeerJeet @hodgman @nprmonkeysee

          I see it also as baked into the tradition of TV Westerns — Miss Kitty — but it def reflects GoT & Sopranos.

          5 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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        2. Aaron Bady‏ @zunguzungu 22 Oct 2016
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          On that: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/westworld-season-1/# …!pic.twitter.com/Nh6PoFSKSg

          1 reply 1 retweet 6 likes
        3. Jim Buhler‏ @JimBuhler 22 Oct 2016
          Replying to @zunguzungu

          This is an excellent piece.

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