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Originally Posted by MrsJoseph
I can see what you're saying, lol I've been accused both of not being enough of a feminist and being too much of a feminist... *sigh*
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I think a lot really depends on the type of book it is. There's a time and place when a feminist eye is necessary and other times when it isn't.
I know that I will no longer pick up a suspense/thriller book if the blurb describes the female character as a "beautiful, intelligent, [fill-in the nationality] scientist/biochemist/astrophysicist/some-other-scientific-specialty
. But if that type of character shows up in an urban fantasy novel, I'm more likely to cut it some slack because I know it's highly likely that something other than the standard woman-in-jep scenario is going to play out with her.
I also expect most goddesses to be gorgeous and capricious. Any immortal being, as far as I'm concerned, is not going to look at human life and human rights the same way as I do.
And really, in urban fantasy novels, there's a lot of reverse sexism. When the narrator/main character is female, the guys in the novel almost always are tall, dark/blonde/auburn, and handsome with piercing green/grey/blue eyes - and there's usually a surfeit of them. Not to mention them always being alpha males. The female character can be as cranky-assed and pig-headed as they come, yet all the males for some reason desire her.
Any reader can take any book apart and find something sexist with it if they are in the mood to do so. The question though, is did the author intend that conclusion, or are you as the reader just projecting your agenda onto the story?