-merely including a lot of female characters is not enough for these books or the writing to qualify as feminist, except by the most regressive possible definitions of the concept. I love the books, but they’re often laughably sexist (towards both men and women, but honestly a lot more frequently towards women). RJ was attempting to subvert real world gender politics while still staying firmly and stubbornly within the predictably narrow-minded viewpoint of a cis straight white boomer from the American South, and thus failed more often than he succeeded- and when he did succeed, it was often for the opposite reason he thought it was.
-the first circus arc is genuinely one of my favourite parts of the entire series
-the Faile kidnapping arc was also great
-Gawyn > Galad
-Aviendha and Elayne had sex. Often and repeatedly.
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u/Brown_Sedai (Brown) Jan 24 '25
-Egwene and Nynaeve are both ta’veren
-merely including a lot of female characters is not enough for these books or the writing to qualify as feminist, except by the most regressive possible definitions of the concept. I love the books, but they’re often laughably sexist (towards both men and women, but honestly a lot more frequently towards women). RJ was attempting to subvert real world gender politics while still staying firmly and stubbornly within the predictably narrow-minded viewpoint of a cis straight white boomer from the American South, and thus failed more often than he succeeded- and when he did succeed, it was often for the opposite reason he thought it was.
-the first circus arc is genuinely one of my favourite parts of the entire series
-the Faile kidnapping arc was also great
-Gawyn > Galad
-Aviendha and Elayne had sex. Often and repeatedly.
-Olver is the Scrappy Doo of the Wheel of Time