Interesting Links for 21-2-2011

[andrewducker]

• Google Gets Involved in BitTorrent Search Engine Lawsuit.
  (tags: google law bittorrent)
• The Facebook Breakup Notifier. For the creepy stalkers amongst us.
  (tags: facebook funny)
• Lessons from the past: why Tories oppose AV
  (tags: conservatives politics voting uk)
• Putting together a list of fantasy novels that aren't full of rape, objectified women and headbanging misogyny
  (tags: feminism women fantasy rape sex)
• Libya goes offline. Another Egypt in the making?
  (tags: libya internet communication politics middle_east)
• Stretching before a run does not prevent injury
  (tags: health exercise sports)
• UK Government finally admits that it's not pulling out of the European Court of Human Rights
  (tags: rights europe uk government)

Comments

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing that woman is not a fan of the Gor books.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

You know, I never actually read those, but I can still clearly remember the covers of the ones my brother had on his shelf from when I was a kid.

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Putting together a list of fantasy novels that aren't full of rape, objectified women and headbanging misogyny

So they can be burned as degenerate works?

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Interesting to see no mention at all of Robin Hobb. Am I the only person who considers Hobb the only fantasy novelist actually worth reading?

I now wonder whether my memories of the Hobb books are completely warped and they're secretly filled with sexism and victim blaming. The trilogy I read had a male main character but I don't remember there being anything wrong with the female characters (and then there was the fool who was neither), and a couple of them were categorically awesome...

[andrewducker]

Not read any of her stuff, although I've heard it recommended.

Pop over and share the awesome!

[marrog.livejournal.com]

I don't talk to fantasy readers/writers on the interweb.

[skington.livejournal.com]

There's a rape in the third liveship book, as I recall; that might be why.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

There's also off-stage rape (of multiple women) in the Farseer books.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Although a piece of writing containing rape doesn't make it unfeminist...