Redcandle17 ([identity profile] redcandle17.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] salinea 2007-05-22 07:54 pm (UTC)

Regarding ASoIaF, I don't know the gender ratio but there's still a lot of misogyny there. The female characters are judged much more harshly and for lesser offenses than male characters. And there are some opinions that are just mind boggling. I recently had spat with someone on Ran's board that took up two pages of the thread because "she*" was insisting that Tyrion should have raped Sansa on their wedding night and that Sansa would even have enjoyed it.

There's also subtle sexism such as scorn for shipping threads despite the ubiquity of "who's the best fighter" threads. I want balance. I want to be able to discuss who's the best fighter and who's in love with whom. After all, love and sex are the reasons for the wars in the series.

* The poster claims to be female but I don't want to believe that a woman would make such sickening statements. I also doubt that any woman would claim Sandor was less physically desirable than Tyrion.

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