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Ok, so I'm reading along in this "Fortress of Blank" series by C. J. Cherryh. I am enjoying it well enough, though it is not without it's problematic elements. Specifically, those one finds in nearly all "high" fantasy - everybody is white, and there are hardly any women. Racial tensions divide along lines of accent and having black or white hair - that's it, nothing else. No brown people, no other languages, nothing of the sort.
::sigh::
But I'm used to that. I mean, it's always a little disappointing when a woman author still chooses to write nearly entirely about men, but that's still what the bookish landscape looks like. I can still enjoy a book all about white men.
However, one teeny, niggling thing has just driven me up the damn wall. The context is people living outside, mostly in tents, in the winter. Here, allow me to quote:
"And in that vicinity the laundrymen battled ice: clothes and blankets froze rather than dried."
::twitch::
FROZEN CLOTHES WILL STILL DRY. THE ICE SUBLIMATES OUT AND YOU WIND UP WITH DRY (albeit cold) CLOTHES. THE LAUNDRYMEN WOULD NOT BE HAVING THAT PARTICULAR PROBLEM.
ARG.
Ok, that is all. I will try to look past it and go back to reading.
::sigh::
But I'm used to that. I mean, it's always a little disappointing when a woman author still chooses to write nearly entirely about men, but that's still what the bookish landscape looks like. I can still enjoy a book all about white men.
However, one teeny, niggling thing has just driven me up the damn wall. The context is people living outside, mostly in tents, in the winter. Here, allow me to quote:
"And in that vicinity the laundrymen battled ice: clothes and blankets froze rather than dried."
::twitch::
FROZEN CLOTHES WILL STILL DRY. THE ICE SUBLIMATES OUT AND YOU WIND UP WITH DRY (albeit cold) CLOTHES. THE LAUNDRYMEN WOULD NOT BE HAVING THAT PARTICULAR PROBLEM.
ARG.
Ok, that is all. I will try to look past it and go back to reading.