I've stopped reading a book once because it was so sexist it was annoying. (It was a crime story from the 1920s or thereabouts, and the women were described as so unbelievably silly they were like blonde jokes on stereoids.)
I've abandoned some series because of sexism and racism, but only modern ones. In older books, if the book is otherwise well written, it's easier to see such things with some distance, but in modern books I really expect better.
...and of course, it's easier for me to see such things with distance because I experience relatively little discrimination myself, as a white straight cisgender woman, in a majority white country which isn't too bad with regard to gender equality.
Last edited by hildea; 02-02-2018 at 05:04 PM.
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