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Originally Posted by Sims Katie
I never said that, I just said she didn't seem like the type.
Mac's mother is such a minor character that in many ways she's more like a plot device. And whether you agree with me or not, I don't think think she's Wilt's creator. I think its going to be someone we've never met.
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I never claimed that YOU said that, now did I? I DID say that whoever wrote that summary on Wikipedia.com is the ONLY source claiming that Wilt's creator was male, and that this person most likely based that notion on a belief that only a boy could be that much into sports to have created an IF that was also into a particular sport. What would be the reasoning, after all, for insisting that Wilt's creator HAS to be male, when there's been no evidence pointing to one gender over the other? My little hypothesis that Wilt was created by Mac's mom is just that-a hypothesis-though there is as much evidence to point in that direction as there is pointing towards his creator having been male by default. People's tastes and priorities change, often drastically, as they grow up. Things that meant a lot to a person when they were a kid often cease to have any importance to them as adults. Whoever created Wilt as a child might very well have been really obsessed with basketball, or a particular basketball player, but as time progressed, and that person grew up, began dating, got married, had kids, had to get a job, buy or rent a home, buy a car, and all the other hassels that are part of being an adult, that basketball obsession might very well become a dim and faded childhood memory...like his/her Imaginary Friend. I can say from personal experience that many of the things that were VERY important to me as a child, are all but forgotten now, and that most people who meet me probably would never figure me for "the type" to have liked those things at any point in my life.
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