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Originally Posted by khalleron
The problem with the one Honor Harrington book I read was I kept scratching my head wondering why the author had made his protagonist a woman. Honor doesn't do (or think or feel) anything differently than your typical white male pulp protagonist, so why is she a she? Did they think it would attract more women readers? To tell the truth, I might have enjoyed the series if she'd been a he - I'm very fond of space opera and swashbucklers - but the cognitive dissonance made the book nearly unreadable.
So I go there for the Bujold and just ignore the other stuff.
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I'm just curious, what traits are you looking for from your woman characters? My take is that from a personal perspective HH could be either male or female. Her traits seem to be more of a mixture of typical stereotypes. However, I'm not sure a future character has to follow today's stereotypes.
However, IMO her gender is most relevant from the point of view of her enemies. Many of the Grayson and Masada (?) factions are against her because of her gender. One of her political roles is to introduce more equal roles to those societies.