book gender binary unpleasantness
one thing I don't like about "Book of the New Sun" is how painfully gendered it is. there's a whole lot of "men do x, women do y" stuff that's related as profound truths. of course, it's written from the POV of a narrator who is shown to be unreliable, but still. plus the way the male narrator acts towards women is kind of gross, both in specific instances and overall attitude, though not quite enough to cross the line in my head.
book gender binary unpleasantness
that line in my head, for instance, that was crossed somewhere in the first quarter of the Thomas Covenant series, and which caused me to throw the book against a wall and never want to pick the series up again, and if you've read it you probably know exactly what I mean. :D
book gender binary unpleasantness
@green Instantly "NOPE GET THESE AWAY FROM ME FOREVER"
book gender binary unpleasantness
@green ...which is kind of too bad since I thought the premise was actually really cool :(
book gender binary unpleasantness
@starkatt yeah, I got kind of invested in the basic premise, and then Incident and I noped out of that series like a nopetopus riding a nopebadger over a nopecliff. I've had so many people try to convince me to give it another try, but it's lodged firmly in the nope lobe of my brain. :P
book gender binary unpleasantness
@green AUGH SAME.