LOL! This is the funniest, and most idiotic comment I've read on this incredibly idiotic "Oh, No's, someone doesn't like my jerk-off Fantasy books from the 80s any more" thread.

Okay, Prostho Plus was also awesome, but I have yet to meet another SciFi reader who has even heard of the book.

Do you really think that sexism and objectification were not well understood and condemned in the 70s and 80s? Piers Anthony was very broadly considered to be written toward teenage boys in the 80s.

GTA can be interpreted as critical commentary on a world with sexism and crime, (women are exploited and abused by men in marginalized high crime groups, encouraged to sell their bodies for rewards, etc). The writing of Piers Anthony, as exemplified by the Xanth series does not write a world in which sexism is a part…

Katy Perry 2012: "I am not a feminist, but I do believe in the strength of women.

Make up unfounded accusations to avoid having to make an actual argument.

If what you cannot or would do in real life is indulge in misogyny and rape, how does reading about it not make that material misogynistic rape fantasy?

We don't think Anthony hates women, we think his books push misogynistic tropes. Read the article.

Thought you weren't wasting any more comments on me.

There are at least two other female commenters in this discussion who share your sexist beliefs. Note that I did not out them as men because they were not such obvious sock puppets. Anyway, I've reported your account to Disqus, for all the good it will do.

Posting from the same IP address is also a tell.

You know "her" because she is a sock puppet account you created to validate your claims in public because they have no merit.

I know many women who don't identify as feminists. Blaming feminists for being outed as a man posing as a woman was just the tell. There was also the argument that misogyny doesn't include showing women raped and men having to suffer no consequences, or constantly objectifying women the way Anthony does, but having…

Read them all as they were published growing up. I know, sucks to be judged as a sexist douche by someone who's your own age or older.

Actually medieval societies were very sexist, as were the 70s, as are most cultures today. Just because most men agreed with your misogynistic way of looking at the world doesn't mean that you weren't a bunch of sexist pricks before most of us acknowledged it.

"The article author is criticizing a fantasy book because certain parts of it don't align with reality,"

You do know that this is fiction, right? The Xanth books… They're not real. Piers Anthony can pretty much make up whatever he wants. He made up a world that was sexist and juvenile…. Hence the criticism.

I told you to fuck off. Please stop talking about fucking off and do it.

"Blame the feminists, SJWs…"

Such a concern troll. Please do me the favor of not pretending to advocate for trans rights. You make the rest of us look like imbeciles.