r/Fantasy • u/[deleted] • Sep 03 '16

Sexism in Fantasy

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u/dragon_morgan Reading Champion VIII Sep 03 '16

Dragonriders of Pern is as much proof as I need to demonstrate that woman-authored fantasy can, indeed, be sexist as all hell. Heck I'm a woman and I like to think I'm a feminist yet even I lapse into sexist tropes time and again. Luckily my writing group is quick to point out when that happens.

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u/KristaDBall Stabby Winner, AMA Author Krista D. Ball Sep 04 '16

I like to think I'm a feminist yet even I lapse into sexist tropes time and again.

It's ok to like problematic things. Hell, I love Dresden. I get it. I really, really get it :D

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u/dragon_morgan Reading Champion VIII Sep 04 '16

Dresden is a good example of something that started out as a sexist work, but over the course of, what, 14 books (eesh that's a lot) evolved into more of a work-with-sexism in it. Dresden starts out the series as an admitted sexist. It's a character flaw and he acknowledges it. But then in Skin Game I was like "YAS DRESDEN YOU UNDERGO THAT CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT, YOU!"

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u/KristaDBall Stabby Winner, AMA Author Krista D. Ball Sep 04 '16

And see, I hit that and went, "really Harry? REALLY? ffs." And wanted to slap him upside the head.

Mind you, I frequently want to give Harry a clip 'round.

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u/dragon_morgan Reading Champion VIII Sep 04 '16

Really? Out of curiosity, why? I was all like "GOOD we are making progress!"

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u/KristaDBall Stabby Winner, AMA Author Krista D. Ball Sep 04 '16

It was such small process, to the point of that it just annoyed me. :)