Date: 2011-02-21 11:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bart-calendar.livejournal.com
I'm guessing that woman is not a fan of the Gor books.

Date: 2011-02-21 12:09 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] zz
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?

Date: 2011-02-21 01:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2011-02-21 03:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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...

Date: 2011-02-21 03:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marrog.livejournal.com
I don't talk to fantasy readers/writers on the interweb.

Date: 2011-02-21 05:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] skington.livejournal.com
There's a rape in the third liveship book, as I recall; that might be why.

Date: 2011-02-22 03:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] channelpenguin.livejournal.com
There's also off-stage rape (of multiple women) in the Farseer books.

Date: 2011-02-22 09:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marrog.livejournal.com
Although a piece of writing containing rape doesn't make it unfeminist...

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