Comments | phraktalsnipe: watership down is sexist? lol TOOL.

phraktalsnipe

watership down is sexist? lol TOOL.

Nov 19, 2008 09:37

I just read this review about Watership Down over at http://www.librarything.com/work/1537

"I cannot give Watership Down five stars because of the way female rabbits are treated in this book. They are treated as chattel to be used and won: the war fought over them is not intended to free them from Woundwort out of compassion, but because they are ( Read more... )

whining, richard adams, martyrs, sexism

Comments 2

singofmyself November 19 2008, 17:58:29 UTC

Ummmmm... This person is STUPID.
It's talking about it from the rabbit's perspective, not from a Human one!

In the animal world it's all about procreating, not liberating. Dork.

phraktalsnipe November 19 2008, 18:07:04 UTC

Well, to give her some slack, while told from a rabbit's perspective, the book is very much a metaphor or model or whatnot of the typical (human) Hero's Journey. It even quotes from Joseph Campbell's "The Hero With a Thousand Faces" at the start of chapter 26!

But if she was getting all that from the book, she should also have not gotten sidetracked on some pathetic gender issue that has nothing to do with the point of the story. grr..