snarking the sexists

[redbird]

sovay wrote

(you cannot cite your intellectual differences with a female parakeet as reasonable scaffolding for your difficulties in writing human women, my dude, or at least you cannot do it without sounding like a dick).

Context has a way with words.

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[wanted_a_pony]

Yet the fact that he felt he had intellectual differences with a bird, & was willing to admit it in public when he knew someone was paying close attention to what he was saying, says a lot.

[recessional]

I maintain a soft spot for the Eddingses in that their fiction was the first time I (an EXTREMELY maternally-brained person whose quote-unquote biological clock turned on with a vengeance at 16 and who also had extremely strong emotions among which anger was a major one) came across any female character who embodied the idea that I could potentially be both maternal, and enjoy personal and private domesticity, and be terrifyingly angry about the universe, and be terrifying when angry, and be both sexual and violent when I chose and also chose not to, all at the same time, and get to have a happily ever after while I was at it.


As an adult, Polgara needs SO MUCH THERAPY and also to be smacked and informed that her trauma does not actually give her the right to treat people the way she does even if (yes EVEN IF) she's probably right and does, in a general way, know what's best for them, and there are many and deep flaws with the books in so many ways.

But nobody else, at that point, had actually told me that it was perfectly acceptable to BOTH WANT a nice orderly home with kids and normal domestic order and shit while also actively being a major power, relevant authority and admired terror in the universe. It was a genuine revelation, and Polgara was a very important influence to my actually developing a sense of self that didn't boil down to "I am going to hide under the bed until you all stop telling me I can't be things".

[sovay]

It was a genuine revelation, and Polgara was a very important influence to my actually developing a sense of self that didn't boil down to "I am going to hide under the bed until you all stop telling me I can't be things".

I'm glad you had that. I can't remember who referred to the ability to extract life-saving concepts from mediocre art as panning for gold, but it's not to be discounted.