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the mod's entire post history is just them talking about YA fantasy shit

And yet…. the entire fantasy community has decided to ignore that Sanderson gives money to the Mormon church, an organization that treats women and LGBTQ people like shit. I know two ex-Mormons in person, one woman and one gay man who are incredible people who had to overcome a lot of mental and emotional trauma because of the Mormon church. I guess the fantasy community has decided that "Separate the art from the artist" applies to Sanderson but not to Rowling? 🤔

I'll never re-watch Game of Thrones because its issues with treatment of women became so much more apparent to me after actually getting into the fantasy genre the past few years. It's good you stopped watching because there are some things later that are way more gross and offensive and unecessary than that Littlefinger scene.

Thank you. I'm honestly mildly disturbed by some of these commenters implying that it's some kind of sexist injustice to men that the Hugos have been recognizing majority female authors. "Cry me a river," says the century of SFF women who weren't given equal chances or recognitions while at the same time not even being seen as an equal human being by society.

I never said it dismisses the other things they're good at. Maybe Murakami has fantastic prose or wonderful pacing or exciting plots or knows how to wrote a setting/atmosphere really well. Great. Then he is good at those things. This post is about characters.

No. Stop reading authors that write women this way. It's not something we should "look past" it's something that should be called out and criticized. Move on to authors that write women as people.

Absolutely not in my experience. I'm in the US and I got a degree in History and English Lit and can really only think of a few times we explored this topic, the one main one I remember is reading the book Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga. I certainly do not remember being taught anything about this in high school. But that's just my experience.I really do not think the average person or reader in the countries that have been the major forces of colonialism are so aware of its harms that a book like Babel is "preachy" or "too heavy handed." If people are uncomfortable reading Babel, then they probably need to sit with that discomfort and reflect on why they feel like that. Edit: Getting downmarseyd for saying that the horrors of colonialism are not widely taught in my experience. Lmao. /r/fantasy sure is special sometimes.

I think this looks amazing!! I'm so excited. Edit: I'm already seeing people whine that it looks too "generic fantasy"… The only reason most of us have any sort of image in our minds of what "generic fantasy" is… is from Tolkien's world. And I'm sick of the hordes of people that flood onto the Internet with the sole purpose of being overwhelmingly negative just for the sake of it. How do they find enjoyment in that. Edit 2: There should be a rule against people coming into posts not about Wheel of Time solely to complain about Wheel of Time. That dead horse has been beaten. Edit 3: maybe a hot take, but I think part of the reason so many people are saying it looks too "clean, shiny, and bright" is because the original trilogy, which was made over two decades ago, is so heavily connected to our nostalgia that it just feels right and anything aesthetically different feels somehow wrong.

this person has to be paid by amazon

She said she can guarantee they aren't going after them "with the same energy" and I believe her. I have no doubt there was a hefty level of misogyny in those DMs and it's been shown time and time again that women receive way more online vitriol for something that men were also involved in. Before this I've seen people say that she's clearly a "fake nerd" because she wears makeup and that she pretends to be a nerd for social media attention- that's the kind of shit that women deal with and the kind of people that look for any reason to send hate. Yeah keep on downvoting, don't engage and just pretend it's not real.

This again? It is impossible for one season to literally ruin 6 great ones.

She never once said "if you don't like it, you're a sexist." Listen to the video. She was specifically addressing DMs and death threats and that sort of online behavior. Not liking a show and having valid criticisms of it is extremely different from sending hateful vitriolic messages to people and it's concerning so many people can't separate the two.

I've completely stopped reading fantasy by men for a while and it really has seemed to decrease my frustrations with the genre, including but not limited to all the things you mention. Plus my TBR has never been longer than it is right now once I completely stopped trying to have interest in all the "big names" that seem to be mostly men 🤷‍♀️ Edit: If you're really going to comment telling me I'm wrong for choosing to read only women, consider two things 1) there may be very valid reasons - systemic issues - behind a woman choosing to pause reading men, some of which are outlined in this very post. Take a second and listen/learn what those issues might be. and 2) I've already read plenty of men. Most of my education was reading men. Time to focus on other voices/experiences/persectives.