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Aug. 25th, 2007 08:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
adiva_calandiaJust finished The Path of Daggers.
*eyes RJ askance* I find it kind of sketchy that an Asha'man bonding an Aes Sedai gives her an orgasm. I just . . . that seems really off to me.
On a similar vein, AHAHAH I was write about femmeslash within the White Tower being a canonical possibility.
In general, I find RJ's attitude towards sex a little troubling, and I'm not sure why. Half his female characters are extremely open about it -- ex. A, the Aiel; ex. B, the Sea Folk -- and the other half are prudish -- ex. C, Egwene fretting about her dreams with Gawyn; ex. D, Rand thinking that he raped Min. RJ doesn't shy away from the idea of his characters having sex, and he writes much better sex scenes than, say, Guy Gavriel Kay, mainly because he just fades to black.
And yet.
I don't know. Is this just me looking for a reason to complain about the books?
*eyes RJ askance* I find it kind of sketchy that an Asha'man bonding an Aes Sedai gives her an orgasm. I just . . . that seems really off to me.
On a similar vein, AHAHAH I was write about femmeslash within the White Tower being a canonical possibility.
In general, I find RJ's attitude towards sex a little troubling, and I'm not sure why. Half his female characters are extremely open about it -- ex. A, the Aiel; ex. B, the Sea Folk -- and the other half are prudish -- ex. C, Egwene fretting about her dreams with Gawyn; ex. D, Rand thinking that he raped Min. RJ doesn't shy away from the idea of his characters having sex, and he writes much better sex scenes than, say, Guy Gavriel Kay, mainly because he just fades to black.
And yet.
I don't know. Is this just me looking for a reason to complain about the books?
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Date: 2007-08-26 01:28 am (UTC)There are reasons I prefer the first five books and the most recent, Knife of Dreams, to the others.
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Date: 2007-08-27 07:59 pm (UTC)And there are many things he does wrong.
Sex and gender issues, sadly, have at least one foot solidly in the wrong camp. *rueful*