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Mar. 11th, 2016 01:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI don't know if my head's screwed up because my sleep is screwed up or the other way around
but it's a bit difficult to get things done at the moment.
However today I managed to stay awake 9-5 and wake up after midnight, so... er, yesterday, that means... ANYway, so my sleep is back to the kind of hours where things could theoretically happen.
New bed arrives next Tuesday morning. Should be assembled, I paid for assembly. Suspect it won't be, because things keep going wrong in slow and irritating ways.
But by then I need to have also bought a mattress and some sheets.
So that's my next scheduled leave the house. Oh, wait, I have no schedule for leave the house, for I continue to have no assistant, and leave the house remains maximum challenging.
*sigh*
I re-read Janny Wurts & Raymond E Feist trilogy, Daughter, Servant and Mistress of the Empire.
I liked the first one best. It sets up a vaguely-asian society and has the female protagonist win within the rules and mores of that society. The second one then sends a white guy to explain how they're doing it all wrong, and the second and third books together fix it by setting up an absolute monarch instead of a Council of nobles. I mean, the Council isn't particularly democratic, given only Ruling Lords vote, and restoration of the rule of law is indeed a happy ending, but the way the solution is to put the white guy's son in charge as the anointed of the gods is kind of not cool. And could the female protagonist not have realised her society needed to be more compassionate because of her religious studies, rather than because a bloke turned up and told her so? And as for all the bits where it says he showed her what it was to be a woman... blergh. Being a woman does not require doing good sex. Doing good sex does not require a man neither. Realising sex can be fun can happen entirely without male intervention. I mean does nobody in books masturbate? It's always 'wow, my body can feel things, must thank a man!' Ugh.
I realise I just complained about it for a paragraph, but I do like all three books.
They're just a bit limited in the feminism department.
So then I picked up a book where the first rape reference was page 7, and I was like, really? Do I want to just give up now? And then I decided to give it til page 100 and see, but by page 10 there'd been an attempted rape on page, and really, ugh. Just, like, bored now? I mean, if you're setting a male protagonist up on his road to heroism, it usually involves, like, magic swords, or stealing stuff for food, or something. But this book has a female protagonist, so thus far that means attempted prostitution and attempted rape. It's an older book, and a first book, and even so it's heading for a good being thrown at the wall. But I persevere, because if it has redeemable parts there's apparently a whole lot more in the series. ... I never bought the rest of the series, so I've already decided against it once, but you never know.
I just want to read books where women are people. Is that actually this difficult? FFS.
but it's a bit difficult to get things done at the moment.
However today I managed to stay awake 9-5 and wake up after midnight, so... er, yesterday, that means... ANYway, so my sleep is back to the kind of hours where things could theoretically happen.
New bed arrives next Tuesday morning. Should be assembled, I paid for assembly. Suspect it won't be, because things keep going wrong in slow and irritating ways.
But by then I need to have also bought a mattress and some sheets.
So that's my next scheduled leave the house. Oh, wait, I have no schedule for leave the house, for I continue to have no assistant, and leave the house remains maximum challenging.
*sigh*
I re-read Janny Wurts & Raymond E Feist trilogy, Daughter, Servant and Mistress of the Empire.
I liked the first one best. It sets up a vaguely-asian society and has the female protagonist win within the rules and mores of that society. The second one then sends a white guy to explain how they're doing it all wrong, and the second and third books together fix it by setting up an absolute monarch instead of a Council of nobles. I mean, the Council isn't particularly democratic, given only Ruling Lords vote, and restoration of the rule of law is indeed a happy ending, but the way the solution is to put the white guy's son in charge as the anointed of the gods is kind of not cool. And could the female protagonist not have realised her society needed to be more compassionate because of her religious studies, rather than because a bloke turned up and told her so? And as for all the bits where it says he showed her what it was to be a woman... blergh. Being a woman does not require doing good sex. Doing good sex does not require a man neither. Realising sex can be fun can happen entirely without male intervention. I mean does nobody in books masturbate? It's always 'wow, my body can feel things, must thank a man!' Ugh.
I realise I just complained about it for a paragraph, but I do like all three books.
They're just a bit limited in the feminism department.
So then I picked up a book where the first rape reference was page 7, and I was like, really? Do I want to just give up now? And then I decided to give it til page 100 and see, but by page 10 there'd been an attempted rape on page, and really, ugh. Just, like, bored now? I mean, if you're setting a male protagonist up on his road to heroism, it usually involves, like, magic swords, or stealing stuff for food, or something. But this book has a female protagonist, so thus far that means attempted prostitution and attempted rape. It's an older book, and a first book, and even so it's heading for a good being thrown at the wall. But I persevere, because if it has redeemable parts there's apparently a whole lot more in the series. ... I never bought the rest of the series, so I've already decided against it once, but you never know.
I just want to read books where women are people. Is that actually this difficult? FFS.