Let Me Tell You About the Birds and the Bees: Gender and the Fallout Over Christopher Priest

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Originally posted by yuki_onna at Let Me Tell You About the Birds and the Bees: Gender and the Fallout Over Christopher Priest

I keep thinking about the Priest situation. You know, the one where a well known male writer took to the internets to blast the Clarke Award list, make some pointed critiques, call authors, including some of the most famous and

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I love a Song of Ice and Fire, I also enjoyed Ms. Doyles scathing feminist critique. Though I did stop reading when she was discussing the plot details of A Feast for Crows...as that is how far along I am in the series.

I wonder if she actually read 4750 pages worth of stuff that was appalling her though, that would seem like a torture test.

I guess if we could create a kind of Medieval Fantasy world where Dragons exist we could also create one where no girls are married off for political purposes or used sexually until their age of consent.

For me the point of "Ice and Fire" is it turns the notion of people being All-Heroic or All-Evil on its head. Cersei is toward the end of the almost irredeemably evil end of the spectrum but there are male characters just as loathsome. Her father and her oldest son two name a couple.

Anyway, I am entertained by the series, there are probably race and gender issues, but at no time do I think Martin is "looking back with longing" and wishing that part of the narrative was still in force.