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
@green IMO a lot of the time an author is writing a sexist/gross unreliable narrator, it's because they *do* actually have those attitudes but want some amount of plausible deniability.
Unless it's clear that it's being portrayed as a Bad Thing. Sometimes even then.
book gender binary unpleasantness
@starkatt in this case, it's--deliberate; I suspect the author has a lot of bias on this point, but I also know that the book is Making Points and Doing Literary Stuff, and Mythic Hero's Journey and all that crap, which is steeped in male-dominant culture-specific traditions. it's just jarring to go from the Ancillary series to that stuff. XD
book gender binary unpleasantness
@green I 💜 Ancillary so hard and I can't wait for her new book to drop.
book gender binary unpleasantness
@starkatt NEW BOOK OMG OMG OMG is it another Ancillary? because I've been fanficcing a sequel in my head and it would be glorious to find out if I got any of it right. XD
book gender binary unpleasantness
@green Yessss it's called Provenance and comes out in October. Dunno if it's part of the same story, but it's in the same universe.
@starkatt @green *squees forever internally*