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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'm saying that Kate Adie considered it to be the issue that was the most difficult aspect of being a woman in a war zone. Disagree with her, if you wish, not me.
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Are you absolutely
sure that was her message? There's zero chance that she was answering the loaded (and quite pointless) question with a barb of her own that some people just didn't pick up on? In my opinion, she answered a silly question with an equally silly answer.
And also, the "take it up with Adie" deflection is disingenuous. It was you, and not Adie, who suggested that fiction authors might need to incorporate her observation (genuine or otherwise) into their stories in order to achieve a more "realistic balance" in their written female characters. Even if you take her opinion at face value, she's one woman war correspondent, not all women war correspondents. Hardly evidence that an author who doesn't incorporate her particular concern with the condition of war-zone facilities into his heroine's personality is overlooking anything.