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AGAIN?

Dammit, there has got to be at least one speculative fiction novel out there that doesn’t introduce a female protagonist by RAPING HER.

It’s not so much that I disapprove of it happening in a story—stories are great because all sorts of totally awful things can happen to pretend people, instead of to real people, and I could write a whole dissertation on this. All I'm sayin' is, when it becomes the default way to introduce someone, I … get a little unsettled.

This book is pretty damn good anyway, and it does look like the incident serves some purpose of character and/or story development, but I'm starting to regard authors with suspicion when they open this way. Good grief.
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[identity profile] gethenian.livejournal.com 2010-03-12 08:28 am (UTC)(link)
...where the fuck do you get your fiction? o.0 I think you're looking in the wrong place.
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[personal profile] beccastareyes 2010-03-12 01:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Is this where I offer book recommendations?

[identity profile] lookingforwater.livejournal.com 2010-03-12 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Because there's a weird little brainbug going around that the only truly meaningful traumas a woman can experience are rape and/or loss of/inability to bear a child.

And okay, those are pretty big traumas. But something like, IDK, watching in helpless horror as your lover kills your father works pretty good too.

[identity profile] gryphart.livejournal.com 2010-03-12 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
May I suggest a trip to the mystery section for a bit? I found it helped wash the taste of other flavors of bad writing away, and it comes with the added bonus of less ickyness in general.

[identity profile] chibicharibdys.livejournal.com 2010-03-12 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Wouldja like recommendations? :D Speculative YA tends to not have that particular tropes, if you're looking for a break.
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[identity profile] nixve.livejournal.com 2010-03-12 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you want some recommendations? Because I have shelves full of spec fic that don't involve rape.

[identity profile] westrider.livejournal.com 2010-03-12 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Interesting. I don't think I've ever actually run into this. The closest I can think of is Sword Dancer, but that's Del's second scene, and she just gets captured, she gets free before anything happens to her.

[identity profile] stormteller.livejournal.com 2010-03-12 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you choosing your books based on the cover? Because if you're grabbing a lot of titles that show, for example, skimpy women clinging to heroic males' legs, you shouldn't be surprised that they're not paragons of double standard aversion.

[identity profile] queenlyzard.livejournal.com 2010-03-25 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
Well, what's the book already?
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