Fantasy worldbuilding

[beccaelizabeth]

women 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??)

Comments

[ilyena_sylph]

I dunno, I like the Nadrak women, in a very strange kind of way.

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)

[beccaelizabeth]

I like the bits where they're take charge and value themselves and feel free to stop men and are good with knives. I just don't see why this is combined with leashes and sales.

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*.