Not to mention that there are a lot of things feminists disagree on!
Yup. And also, feminism moves on, so while SotL, say, may have been ground-breakingly feminist when it was first published, it's much less so now, when every. single. YA fantasy novel has the women being Strong Girls Who Fight.
(SotL is, for my money, still the most feminist of her Tortall series.)
Same, on the upset. I was skeeved out by Daine/Numair - and upset that she characterized any criticism as "screeching" and continues to defensively not even TRY to get it, but she does that for everything.
I was even more upset that all that was unique in SotL had to be strip-mined out so later books could be Really Medieval (*snerk*) and be used to soapbox about real-world issues.
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Yup. And also, feminism moves on, so while SotL, say, may have been ground-breakingly feminist when it was first published, it's much less so now, when every. single. YA fantasy novel has the women being Strong Girls Who Fight.
(SotL is, for my money, still the most feminist of her Tortall series.)
Same, on the upset. I was skeeved out by Daine/Numair - and upset that she characterized any criticism as "screeching" and continues to defensively not even TRY to get it, but she does that for everything.
I was even more upset that all that was unique in SotL had to be strip-mined out so later books could be Really Medieval (*snerk*) and be used to soapbox about real-world issues.