Comments on: The Explorer http://thehathorlegacy.com/the-explorer/ the search for great women characters Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:09:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: SunlessNick http://thehathorlegacy.com/the-explorer/#comment-88236 SunlessNick Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:51:27 +0000 http://thehathorlegacy.com/?p=80#comment-88236 I wish I could think of something more cogent to say than "What a good analysis" and "What a horrible book" but there you have it. I wish I could think of something more cogent to say than “What a good analysis” and “What a horrible book” but there you have it.

]]> By: Izzy http://thehathorlegacy.com/the-explorer/#comment-88235 Izzy Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:00:28 +0000 http://thehathorlegacy.com/?p=80#comment-88235 Ooof. "Forced seduction," and similar euphemistic rape-but-he-REALLY-CARES bullshit was an annoyingly common part of romance novels up until at least the nineties. (I started reading the damn things when I was 12, in 1995, and Johanna Lindsey was still doing it, for instance.) The genre has gotten a lot better since. That basic curing-sexual-fear-via-rape concept also appears in "Dragonquest," which adds to the rampant Maddona/whore attitudes and the totally bizarro concept of homosexuality that make up my "shut the FUCK UP, Anne McCaffery," pile. Ooof.

“Forced seduction,” and similar euphemistic rape-but-he-REALLY-CARES bullshit was an annoyingly common part of romance novels up until at least the nineties. (I started reading the damn things when I was 12, in 1995, and Johanna Lindsey was still doing it, for instance.) The genre has gotten a lot better since.

That basic curing-sexual-fear-via-rape concept also appears in “Dragonquest,” which adds to the rampant Maddona/whore attitudes and the totally bizarro concept of homosexuality that make up my “shut the FUCK UP, Anne McCaffery,” pile.

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