> Doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Charlie Bell wrote: > >> Doug wrote: > >>>Charlie wrote:
<some snippage> > >>> Yeah. Claire said that Glory Season pisses her > off 'cause Brin comes > >>> across as badly sexist. I don't see it, but I > >>> guess that's the point... > >> What's her rational[e]? > > I don't know..."No, I've > > read it and it pissed me off, Brin seems to be > >really sexist and > > think women are inferior and ...it's just the way > > he writes women." > > So, using my female-male dictionary, I have no > >idea really. She likes Banks a lot though. > I was curious because I remember Brin being pissed > off because someone else (a feminist organization I > think) had a similar reaction. I'm pretty sure he > considers himself a feminist and Glory Season to be > pro-feminist. > > I read the book some ten years ago and don't > remember that much about it. I also read it ~ 12 yrs ago, and I didn't care for it; I don't recall thinking it sexist, exactly, but *I* wouldn't want to live in such a world. I actually resold the book (unlike all the Uplift novels, which I got in hardcover b/c I enjoy them so much). I do think his female Uplift characters are very well-drawn, and I can relate to how most of them feel and behave. Now I shall have to reread GS, and see what it was that annoyed me... More books: I finished _Remember Phlebas_#, and while I enjoyed the culure-building very much (and see parallels to some of today's mess), I hated to see some of the main protagonists die before getting a decent chance at redemption. Also, I didn't think his women as multi-faceted as Brin's, but to be fair I judge a book quite heavily on whether I like (or can relate to) major characters. The women in the Duneverse seem less than three-dimentional as well, overly preoccupied with pleasing a man, duping a man, or grasping at power by using men. I did find returning there interesting enough to plan to read the next in the Herbert/Anderson prequel series - just turned _House Atriedes_ (sp?) back in. Debbi # There But For The Grace Of God Go I Maru ____________________________________________________________________________________ No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started. http://mobile.yahoo.com/mail _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
