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[glishara]

So, I am doing a periodic reread of The Sharing Knife, by Bujold, and found myself mulling on how Dag has grown on me as a character. I feel as though I like him better every time I read the book. I also like how, despite the imbalance in age and experience, both parties bring something real and vibrant to the match. Fawn isn't just an accessory

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[teza]

That would bother me.

A lot.

I have been going through this phase where it is really exasperating to me keep seeing this threads running through genre fiction, through video games, et cetera. I have been particularly tuned into it where games are concerned since I have been replaying a lot of classic computer RPGs. Did you know you can't have an RPG without having women prostituting themselves? Who knew!

[subsidaryforge]

Didn't you know? 50% of all women are whores - the hot 50%.

-- more pertinently, yes, that's problematic. Nomadic societies and, for that matter, mysterious hero-societies maybe fictitiously trend "male" against the nurturing settled "female," but I don't see why there's any reason the woman can't be the enigmatic, powerful Lakewalker. Man, I even am reading this horribly dense book on agriculture and violence, and there isn't anything inherently "nurturing" about tilling the land even. I'm just saying!