'Jaynestown'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Given what I had heard, I expected ASOIAF to be some huge rapefest, but, thankfully, it is not, at least in the first three books. That is, there is a fair amount of rape in the world, present and past, but there aren't a lot of rape scenes. It's mostly just talked about.
I'm not so into Huge Sweeping Fantasy, so I wasn't sure, despite the love expressed here.
I was the same until I got hooked.
Meh, I disagree pretty strongly with that reading of ASOIAF. But I guess that makes me one of those stupid fans that just can't listen or something.
There are MANY valid criticisms to make about GRRM (Orientalism out the wazoo is only the most obvious), but I hardly think it's useful to simply list every bad thing that happens to all the female characters, willfully misreading at least half of them, and then point and say SEE? SEXISM!
It's not like bad things happening to women isn't historically factual.
I think there are valid cases to be made that GRRM's portrayal of women is frequently sexist. I think most of the examples in this post are chosen not because they're good arguments but because they're easy rants. (And I'm not sure it's ever helpful to frame an argument as "I could make a good argument, but since you won't listen anyway, here's a really shitty argument with lots of capslock instead." Unless the real goal is click-baiting, in which case well done.)
I think there are valid cases to be made that GRRM's portrayal of women is frequently sexist.
Outline a few for me? That are better than her complaints.
Not a challenge just curious where you'd make the distinction.
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So the Gentlement Bastards sequence finally has a publication date for the next volume: The Republic of Thieves drops on September 3, 2013, and it's finally going to introduce Sabetha. About damn time, I have to say. [link]
Outline a few for me? That are better than her complaints.
Sorry, I didn't see this before we left for London! And now I'm too exhausted from 12 hours of travel to think straight. But I'll try to think of something coherent to say when I've had some sleep.
Sorry, I didn't see this before we left for London!
Oh, no - not that excuse again!
Btw, we got your package for Matilda today. Thanks! Good timing.
Yay! I hope she likes the accidental birthday present.