(urth) Wolfe: Misogynist Or Realist?
Jeff Wilson
jwilson at io.com
Fri Oct 20 08:44:12 PDT 2006
timothy fletcher wrote:
> I think this discussion is being too narrow. There are a lot of fantasy
> and science fiction authors, especially modern ones, who portray
> violence against women. Off the top of my head I can think of the most
> extreme, Goodkind and Martin. I know that Goodkind is barely considered
> literary, and Martin perhaps less so than Wolfe, but if we are
> psychoanalyzing authors by their works, those two would have to hate
> women exceedingly more than Wolfe himself. Tolkien would have to find
> them uninteresting and ignore them. And what about female authors?
> Should we look at more female authors and decide whether they hate men?
> I find "The Yellow Wallpaper" suspect.
It's not quanity of violence against women, it's the moral context. Is
it presented as a crime? spoils of war? just desserts? pretext to
arranged marriage? harmless fun?
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