Hmm, it must be a different book series I was thinking of then. The book series I pointed out had a male author, and were a 5-book series, not a 10-book series. Also, it had actual unicorns in it not humanoid unicorn-like creatures. It emphasized the extinction of the human race greatly… hence why they seemed to…

Just because a story has a female ruler in them doesn't mean that it's completely absolved of the problematic content that it does have. I've read the Xanth series as a young girl myself, and re-reading them I'm still creeped out by characters like Bink. Bink is very clearly Pro-rape, and downright mysgonstic. And he…

How do you explain the passages where Brink thinks that Chameleon was created for the sole purpose of rape? And the many times he thought about how he wanted to rape her so badly? and how they basically gave him a pat on the shoulder for not doing that even though he wanted to?

History aside… I have no problems with a book setting being sexist if it was simply just the time period it was in, and the way society at the time was being influenced by social mores.
I just simply find it creepy that Antony kept on trying to justify it in-world where the narrative would keep on constantly…

if you looked at history, then you would realize that in certain time periods it was simply accepted that women tended to be far more sexually promiscuous than men were. The Greeks often wrote of this, even if they did have some weird ideas about how female genitals worked. Of course, the Greeks also used the Greek…

Actually, newer studies show that women can have the same amount of sex drive as any man… that's just societal conditioning kicks in and they've been conditioned to think of wanting sex as shameful, etc…. So they're less likely to want to express publicly how much sex they actually want.
http://www.theatlantic.com/…
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I was mostly speaking of the posters here who tried to use real-life history to justify the viewpoints that the author was pushing on us. i notice they do the same thing for George martin too. Even though as you stated, it's a friggin' FANTASY series.
I would have no issues with Brink and others having the…

I very clearly remember there being a scene in the xanth books where they were discussing whenever men could help themselves or not when it came to pretty women…. and one of the women got transformed into a man for a short time.
When she finally transformed back to normal, she went on and on about how completely…

Actually I did read the series growing up. didn't think much of it as a kid other than to laugh or groan at the puns. But as an adult when I look back at it, I can admit that it was kind of fucked up… and I'm just thankful that most of the disturbing implications flew over my head as a kid.

I would like to add on to your excellent point. Namely, that even in medieval societies there was still varying different opinions on what was acceptable and what wasn't. There was pockets of societies back then that was actually far more progressive than today's world. For instance, Vikings recognized that rape was a…

https://litreactor.com/colu… and this article writer wasn't the only one who saw some disturbing themes in pier's works… although this one focus more on the other works out there.

Actually I've read plenty of works where I disagreed with the protagonist completely or had read about protagonists whose political agendas did not align with my own, yet I was able to sympathize with them anyhow.
you seem to fail to realize my point—- that a good story often have plenty of characters with dissenting…

I'm not calling for the authors to censor their own works. Bink can be a sexist asshole all he wants… but what I'm saying is that the Narrative seems to be saying that Bink's viewpoint would be just as perfectly natural in REAL LIFE if somebody else held this same viewpoint in real life. And not only that, but we…

It's one thing to have a civilization that has sexist and prejudiced viewpoints. It's other thing entirely to have the NARRATIVE paint that viewpoint as being completely, 100% correct. As somebody else here said, It's not like "A Clockwork Orange" where the main character was clearly
meant to be a psychopath whom you…

Actually, it turns out that the whole teenagers marrying early actually be a half-myth. People believed in that readily because Kings, Nobles and all those other people of royal blood often married young for political reasons. So naturally they believed that if the high-ranking people were doing it, then that meant…

I think that only happened because writers were scared of coming off as trying to villianify gay or non-white couples if they even wrote anything even remotely negative about them. And that's the thing…. there's millions of white straight couples on TV, so white couples everywhere have plenty of positive…