R Scott Bakker

[markerikson]

So, my feminism inquiries continue.  It's eye opening in a "Oh shit, I do do that.  And I'm totally guilty of that!" way.  There's kind of a lifetime of really awful habits that have to be re-examined.

It also led me to some really great criticism of R Scott Bakker.  I said he was a likely misogynist back when I first started reading his books, but

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[markerikson]

I can imagine a story where such a setting could be used to make a decent point or two, with strong female characters fighting against, and hopefully overcoming the nature of the shitty world they were born into. Bakker is all "in the fullness of time everything will become clear..." But I find it much harder to imagine anything he could add into the story at this point that would wipe away all the shit he's put in there thus far