(urth) George R. R. Martin on Gene Wolfe

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes danldo at gmail.com
Tue Apr 28 14:21:30 PDT 2015


OK, the word "foil" was wrong. But they all tend to the goddess/bitch/whore
trichotomy into which female characters are too often written by men.
(Really, from reading some of his fiction you'd get the impression that
he'd heard of women but never actually _met_ one.)

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at clueland.com> wrote:

>
> On Tue, April 28, 2015 13:52, Marc Aramini wrote:
> > No love for the freshly hatched chick twixt Jolenta's chafing thighs?
> >
> > That description scarred me as a child, to be fair.
>
> I was about to say that BOTNS has numerous non-foil female characters with
> various degrees of agency. And Sev doesn't even bang all of 'em!
>
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