RE: Re: Vinga's Skirts

From: Gareth Martin <gamartin_at_...>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 16:38:53 -0000

 

> True. Considering the reaction of folks here, I am wondering what they
> will do when the Lunar (Dara Happan) or Western books show up.

I think this is still missing the point. Part of me would have like HW not to have modified patriarchal culture for 20th C. audiences at all, and then I could have played it to the hilt, no-holds-barred representation of what these societies are like. HW has chosen not to do so, and has instead attempted to offer more opportunities for women than RW equivalent societies would have had in at least the Lunar and Heortling cultures. But some of the quality of this work was itself quite bad and rather patronising in its own right (IMO) as reports of several heated responses indicate. Personally, I find Vinga rather more Spice Girls than I really want, a rather half-hearted attempt to establish a female warrior role. I am suggesting that HW should do it straight down the line historical realism, or put more effort into its deliberately female freindly archetypes. This half-way house has left nobody happy.

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