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• Exactly! I think that's the problem in a nutshell. It's not the so-called nudity. It's the fact that people are conditioned to think of breasts as purely sexual objects and they to think it's weird and therefore icky to associate
  (posted to What We Missed )
• Thank you for this. I had issues with this post for the exact reasons you stated. I am pretty far from "beautiful" in my own eyes and--I'm sure--by society's standards, but I've been whistled at, leered at, yelled at, and
  (posted to On beauty and its consequences)
• I would disagree with you. I'm average looking at best. I have a large nose and a double chin. I wear glasses, very little makeup, and my hair is usually in a ponytail. I almost never show skin--I wear jeans
  (posted to On beauty and its consequences)
• Hmmm...actually with me in particular I think it has to do with circumstance. When I used to walk to and from school, it would pretty much be a daily occurrence, b/c for some men, a woman walking alone is a
  (posted to On beauty and its consequences)
• Check out Catherynne Valente's "Orphan's Tales" duology: "In the Night Garden" and "In the Cities of Coin and Spice." They are some of the most amazing fantasy books I've ever read, and there are many strong female characters and subversive
  (posted to Feminist Fantasy)

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• Errr...Rack not rake my brain. (posted to Feminist Fantasy)
• I also loved the Dragonriders of Pern series, but... what you said, and let's not forget the rape scene in Dragonquest (seriously, it explicitly says Brekke is *struggling* against F'nor). The later books are better, and I do adore Lessa (posted to Feminist Fantasy)
• I think the Menoly books (Dragonsinger, Dragonsong) are pretty feminist, and they're more recent, right? Its true some of the Pern books have some sexist stuff in them, questionable rape scenes, etc. Sometimes its hard to divide what is a (posted to Feminist Fantasy)
• Yeah, that for some reason slipped my mind when I was writing my post. But reading it now still makes me uneasy. I think that they had so much potential, but because of some issues that the writer has they (posted to Feminist Fantasy)
• I believe that the Menolly books along with the last of the harper hall series was written before The White Dragon. Which is the last of the Dragonriders of Pern trilogy. I did like those books a lot as I (posted to Feminist Fantasy)

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