Angry train wants Wheel if Time series to derail for their own needs. Some drama in comments

Do they seriously think that logically the nature of magic would work by gender and not s*x? Cause that would be pretty darn r-slurred, lol

Its called progress chud

Um get used to it

The biggest travesty is having a fantasy series without a single hot foid to waifu over. Gone Girl was hot in her day, but clearly that day has passed. The rest of them look like they should be changing sheets at a Motel Six. It just won't do.

Why make a big deal of a Game of Thrones copycat?

I'm glad men can be women sometimes or it the opposite?

@QuadNarca I'm literally shaking, please put this transphobic chud in his place.

I refuse to learn about any of this because it would require me to be a tremendous homosexual but I believe the original material has a very binary source of magic such that your bussy is indeed distinct from a gussy. Imagine the shock when trains find this unacceptable.

I've read the books, so I can give you some quotes of the article and quips to skim through. Warning though, long article means long comment incoming.

Subtitle: The show’s One Power works differently than in Robert Jordan’s books

Whelp, there goes the entire premise of the 14 novel series being portrayed even semi-accurately in the show.

it is erasing some of the problematic gender stereotypes of the source material.

Were there stereotypes in the books? Oh god yes, and it's great fun to poke at and laugh about them. Are the stereotypes problematic? No, because this isn't real life. THEY'RE FANTASY NOVELS FOR ENTERTAINMENT, YOU FRICKING

Some people have the ability to touch the True Source, to channel the One Power and use it to perform miraculous feats. <snip> the two halves are divided into a strict gender binary, with saidin being the male half and saidar being the female half.

Again, the premise of the entire fantasy world RJ wrote. The One Power is different for men and women, but functions like yin-yang. Deliberately separate, while balanced and complementary. Men and women can work together with the One Power in very specific ways, but are intentionally independent otherwise.

Binary is the point. But oh no, it's "problematic" for Xe. Write your own 14 book series then, something so epic that millions of fans tickle daddy Bezos' bussy into funding a TV show later.

Several paragraphs crying about how women are written as weak/submissive and men are written as stoic/unfeeling, and then contradicting Xeself by explaining how the characters are actually complex and break out of gender roles as they grow and develop

Too many words-words-words. So what's the problem then? Here's an example ...

Rand, meanwhile, is shown to be loving, gentle, and kind — more traits that are too often denied to male characters. This tracks with the Rand in the books, but as his story progresses, the focus of the narrative seems to be solely on the burden of manhood and male leadership.

The author is so far up their own butt, it's not surprising they missed this ... Rand (the main character) wasn't struggling with being a man/male. He was struggling with the fear that he would literally destroy the world and everyone/everything he loves, and that he had no purpose or free will due to being a pawn of the Wheel Of Time.

Reincarnation is a fact in the novels, but since the gender binary is literally written into the elemental forces of the universe, it is perhaps unsurprising that souls are said to have immutable genders that do not change from incarnation to incarnation.

Again, someone's been sniffing their own farts so much that they forgot there were characters who were reincarnated as the opposite s*x (a couple of the Forsaken/villains, I can't remember their names offhand and I'm not going to bother Googling it).

only Rand, Mat, and Perrin have the ability to be Lews Therin reincarnated, or what they call “the Dragon Reborn.” Egwene and Nynaeve are never contenders <snip> like all three of the boys are. In a series in which only women can use magic, and do much, if not most, of the heroic work, they are never as symbolically significant as the male protagonists.

Why would Xe consider the women who do magic and heroic work as not symbolically significant? They had actual tangible significance in numerous ways, hence being primary characters behind the main (Rand).

The fact that only the male half of the Power is tainted becomes more interesting when the Dragon might be reborn as a girl — it would be much easier for the forces of the Light if Egwene or Nynaeve turned out to be the next savior of mankind knowing that the Dragon could have been a girl changes the universe in fundamental ways.

OK, so female power... I get it now! You're just changing the story in favor of foids rising up victorious against the patriarchy.

There is little room in such a narrative for same-gender love, just as there is little room to allow truly brilliant characters to escape the constraints of heteronormativity and gender stereotypes.

Oh here we go, better add some totally unnecessary and tokenized representation of LGBTQWTFALPHABET to appeal to other NPCs.

it has embraced a broader worldview, one that makes space for every type of person. They are not inherently limited by their gender, or their sexuality, or whether they can touch the True Source. And that is fitting, not only because it reflects our real world

Again, it's a fantasy series. Books. Writing. Imagination. Entertainment. IT'S NOT REAL, you darn smoothbrain.

Who's "they"?

These things aren't some cynical decisions made by suits for profit. These people ARE the creative industry, or at least a sizable part of it, and write and act that shit out of their own beliefs. And if not alphabet people themselves, they're at least "a true ally".

good.