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: i don't think i said it was new, did i? i meant to say "fictional". it's a theme from the past, and showed up as a technology in snow crash, and then a couple of years ago a woman in south africa invented one. --[[User:Lquilter|LQ]] 20:25, 21 February 2007 (PST) | : i don't think i said it was new, did i? i meant to say "fictional". it's a theme from the past, and showed up as a technology in snow crash, and then a couple of years ago a woman in south africa invented one. --[[User:Lquilter|LQ]] 20:25, 21 February 2007 (PST) | ||
It's the one-line "as portrayed in (a book published in the 1990s)" description that made it sound as if it hadn't existed before. And also the classification under "technology", when it's been around as a myth for much longer than that. --[[User:Ide Cyan|Ide Cyan]] 20:28, 21 February 2007 (PST) | It's the one-line "as portrayed in (a book published in the 1990s)" description that made it sound as if it hadn't existed before. And also the classification under "invention", then "technology", when it's been around as a myth for much longer than that. --[[User:Ide Cyan|Ide Cyan]] 20:28, 21 February 2007 (PST) | ||
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I haven't read Snow Crash, but surely vagina dentata aren't anywhere near being new inventions, much less new technologies. They've been part of mythical, misogynist biologies for centuries. --Ide Cyan 16:18, 21 February 2007 (PST)
- i don't think i said it was new, did i? i meant to say "fictional". it's a theme from the past, and showed up as a technology in snow crash, and then a couple of years ago a woman in south africa invented one. --LQ 20:25, 21 February 2007 (PST)
It's the one-line "as portrayed in (a book published in the 1990s)" description that made it sound as if it hadn't existed before. And also the classification under "invention", then "technology", when it's been around as a myth for much longer than that. --Ide Cyan 20:28, 21 February 2007 (PST)