Fantasy worldbuilding
Sep. 5th, 2007 01:58 pmwomen on leashes being sold - who even invents that???
well, David Eddings, apparently.
and no, giving them knives and half the money does *not* make it feminist.
*shudders*
(why is 'challenging' considered sexy? Why is slicing up anyone who tries taken as incentive??)
well, David Eddings, apparently.
and no, giving them knives and half the money does *not* make it feminist.
*shudders*
(why is 'challenging' considered sexy? Why is slicing up anyone who tries taken as incentive??)
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Date: 2007-09-05 06:47 pm (UTC)At least anyone that tries to rape a Nadrak woman will scream soprano all the way to the grave.
Gor is the world I have the problem with.
(Um... challenging/defiant is sexy, at least to me, but the other? I have no idea)
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Date: 2007-09-05 06:52 pm (UTC)Gor I heard about and never had to get near reading.
I guess I like a bunch of warrior woman characters who could be called challenging. It's just I've read a bunch of books in a row lately where the male author writes about women clearly giving go-away signals and somehow considers this erotic. That kind of challenging - the sort that says try it and you'll get the sharp end. To me that seems more like a 'leave alone' signal, and it means those sections of story leave me *facepalm*.