*grumblegrumble*
Jul. 4th, 2008 11:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katikatYou know, I really hate authors - especially female authors - who tend to portray males as assholes and females as a some sort of sacrament on principle. In the real world, it's never that black and white and I hate it when the actions of heroines can be excused time and time again but heroes are doomed by their gender from the start.
Yes, I'm talking about Sara Douglass. I mean, come on! Faraday is saint, Azhure is saint, Rivkah is saint. But Axis is a jerk. Yes, Faraday loved Axis, but she just had to marry his brother Borneheld to save Axis' life (I still don't understand that reasoning though). She shared Borneheld's bed but she did it to save Axis' life (huh?). She's just a poor suffering soul who abhores violence and wants nothing more than make love to Axis and bear him children and frolick in the Sacred Grove with the Horned Ones... And Axis? After she left him, he dared to take a lover, he dared to care for her, he dared to have a child with her. How dared he? Yes, because that's the only thing he had on his mind because, you know, saving the world is secondary to how much he should cherish Faraday. She left him without explaining anything but that it was for his own good. But yes, Axis is an asshole and a jerk and traitor and literally everybody hates him for falling in love with Azhure when poor Faraday was so suffering for him... Oh, and then they hate him for even thinking of leaving Azhure for Faraday. But both Azhure and Faraday will magnanimously forgive him his wrongs, of course.
GRR!!! Like, for real?!
Yes, I'm talking about Sara Douglass. I mean, come on! Faraday is saint, Azhure is saint, Rivkah is saint. But Axis is a jerk. Yes, Faraday loved Axis, but she just had to marry his brother Borneheld to save Axis' life (I still don't understand that reasoning though). She shared Borneheld's bed but she did it to save Axis' life (huh?). She's just a poor suffering soul who abhores violence and wants nothing more than make love to Axis and bear him children and frolick in the Sacred Grove with the Horned Ones... And Axis? After she left him, he dared to take a lover, he dared to care for her, he dared to have a child with her. How dared he? Yes, because that's the only thing he had on his mind because, you know, saving the world is secondary to how much he should cherish Faraday. She left him without explaining anything but that it was for his own good. But yes, Axis is an asshole and a jerk and traitor and literally everybody hates him for falling in love with Azhure when poor Faraday was so suffering for him... Oh, and then they hate him for even thinking of leaving Azhure for Faraday. But both Azhure and Faraday will magnanimously forgive him his wrongs, of course.
GRR!!! Like, for real?!
