extraordinary people

[mizkit]

So I was reading something-probably Kate Elliott (kateelliott)’s fabulous The Omniscient Breasts-and some guy was commenting (to paraphrase), “Why would anybody want to read epic fantasy about women, who basically got married at fourteen and stayed pregnant their whole lives and never went five miles from where they were born?”

I find the blindered attitude

Comments

[martianmooncrab]

I can remember from my childhood reading, that boys were kinda stupid to get themselves into those situations.

[chrysoula]

I really don't know _why_ I latched onto protagonist gender relatively young. Maybe because I did feel like an extraordinary child and wondered if maybe I didn't have the fantastic adventures because I wasn't a boy? I mean, I was never a girly girl. I wasn't even a tomboyish girl. I was just... a nerdy girl, I guess. Maybe I wanted more nerdy girls. Hermione would have THRILLED me, even though she wasn't the protagonist

[eglantine_br]

I never doubted that anyone could have adventures. I happily read about boys as well as girls.

Later, as I grew, I realized that most adults do not not have adventures of the Narnia sort. I still want to read about men and women both.

(There were plenty of men who had hard empty lives, in the past too. They may not have married at 14, but they worked the same land all their lives. Most of us descend from such people-- we should be grateful to them.)

[kateelliott]

[mizkit]

I cannot wait to read that. <3

[kateelliott]

[mizkit]

THIS IS TOTALLY UNREALISTIC NOBODY COULD HAVE DONE THAT GIRL COOTIES GIRL COOTIES AAAAAAH

[irishkate]

As far as I remember the books I read had boys and girls mostly - until I fell for Asimov who rarely write good women but wrote stories I really enjoyed. But nothing in them made me think they weren't as much for me as anyone else - nor that I couldn't do the things in them just because I was a woman..