garrettauthor:cs-elliot:garrettauthor:garrettauthor:thefingerfuckingfemalefury:wintergrey:garrettbro
garrettauthor:cs-elliot:garrettauthor:garrettauthor:thefingerfuckingfemalefury:wintergrey:garrettbrobinson:I got real petty over on the Facebook page and IT WAS GLORIOUS.This is me, going to check out Legendary Books now…Publisher: We think that the way the fantasy genre treats women is problematic so we’re going to try and do betterA Fool: If you don’t like it why don’t you make your own!Publisher: ThatThat is literally what we just said we are doingGUESS WHO’S BACK, BIGOTED FUCKWADS?BOY it feels good to be back in this particular saddle!AHAHAHAHAHA we have a winner for today!Okay, but suggesting that Tolkien was the one to create issues in fantasy worlds and their misogyny is giving him WAY too much credit. Fucking Beowulf didn’t even bother giving a name to Grendel’s mother, this is a centuries-long problem. Hags and witches are mythical tropes found all over the world for centuries that are always women, usually old, as almost always wicked/trickster figures. If anything, Tolkien ought to be attributed to enstilling such rampant racial problems in fantasy settings as the norm (making elves white and all-around better, making the darker skinned races/humans side with the evil groups, a lack of diversity among races outside of humans, heavy coding of non-human races as non-Eurocentric people, etc.) Fair point! -- source link