The Fantasy Gender Problem (Part II)
Last time, I discussed the curious phenomenon of male fantasy authors who create worlds that drastically restrict the roles their female characters can fill and then struggle to work around […]
Last time, I discussed the curious phenomenon of male fantasy authors who create worlds that drastically restrict the roles their female characters can fill and then struggle to work around […]
Even today, many male fantasy authors are blithely willing to include female characters only as subjects for male characters’ heroics and sexual conquests, but even among the better authors, the […]
We’re at the end of our readthrough of Save the Pearls: Revealing Eden. Our “heroes” are living with a bunch of tribespeople who are totally in touch with nature, and […]
As we approach the end of Save the Pearls: Revealing Eden, today Cliff rewrites everything. Me: Was it even possible for two people to truly see each other in a […]
Today in our readthrough of Save the Pearls, the good news is that the pretty white girl who thinks she’s ugly and the black animal-man leave the world where black […]
Continuing our readthrough of Save the Pearls, our lead guy is a black beast-man. No, literally. Also, some villains do some stuff, I think, and we have a competition for […]
Last time, I shared our comments about the book’s background and promotional materials. Today, we jump right in with the book itself. It begins in The Combs, a dystopian underground […]
Today we begin our readthrough of the extremely wrongheaded YA novel Save the Pearls, which purports to be an anti-racist parable but ends up being offensive to just about everyone. We […]
I participated in a readthrough of Save the Pearls: Revealing Eden. I am now planning on presenting it here. For background, Save the Pearls would have been just another mediocre […]
Last time, I discussed the new film version of Les Misérables and its context in the history of the novel, the musical, and the proliferation of other adaptations. This time, […]