This isn't really related, but I've been re-reading the Wheel of Time series and it drives me crazy how the author makes every relationship between men and women a struggle for power. I'm super glad I didn't internalize that after reading the series so much in my teens. And it's weird how every new woman he introduces is more beautiful and buxom than the last. :cringe:
Not quite all of them. I haven't re-read any of them except the first one as an audiobook to help me sleep as an adult, but I still remember from my own teen years the character of Faile, whose defining feature was her nose. With every mention it grew in my mind, and while reading the books as they came out I spent some of my teen years imagining Perrin's absurdly long hunt for his kidnapped wife as him just following the furrow ploughed by her "strong Saldean nose" as she was being dragged across the landscape.
It's kind of strange, but it also kind of works because its a very 18th century noble view of gender dynamics, like Madame du Pompadour is constantly 3 steps away from couping the Crown from the Queen or something.
This isn't really related, but I've been re-reading the Wheel of Time series and it drives me crazy how the author makes every relationship between men and women a struggle for power. I'm super glad I didn't internalize that after reading the series so much in my teens. And it's weird how every new woman he introduces is more beautiful and buxom than the last. :cringe:
Not quite all of them. I haven't re-read any of them except the first one as an audiobook to help me sleep as an adult, but I still remember from my own teen years the character of Faile, whose defining feature was her nose. With every mention it grew in my mind, and while reading the books as they came out I spent some of my teen years imagining Perrin's absurdly long hunt for his kidnapped wife as him just following the furrow ploughed by her "strong Saldean nose" as she was being dragged across the landscape.
Turns out Faile means "schnoz" in the Old Tongue
Wheel of time, where everyone is a woolheaded idiot, luckily the forces of darkness are even more idiotic.
Love those books, gonna have to read them again soon.
Love how light wins because every single remaining evil character is carrying around a massive idiot ball they can't throw away.
It's kind of strange, but it also kind of works because its a very 18th century noble view of gender dynamics, like Madame du Pompadour is constantly 3 steps away from couping the Crown from the Queen or something.