I guess if you as guest are the exception to the rule of utter male dominance it COULD be fun?
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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.
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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.
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but it just might be the common fantasy of the juvenile banker creeps who can afford to go there.
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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.
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Replying to @hodgman @nprmonkeysee
I honestly think that’s the central subject of the show. An anxiety dream about making prestige exploitainment.
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Don't steal my thunder, Nussbaum! (I have a piece coming out making this point).
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Replying to @HeerJeet @emilynussbaum and
But, yeah, what makes WW interesting is its an HBO show criticizing HBO shows.
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And prevalence of sex workers in WW is in part comment on how prostitutes used in Game of Thrones
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I see it also as baked into the tradition of TV Westerns — Miss Kitty — but it def reflects GoT & Sopranos.
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Replying to @emilynussbaum @hodgman
Mine would be "Restworld," with tea and books and long walks on the downs. Doesn't make for very good TV tho probly
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