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The way male writers describe women
Dina:
:) perfectly fine
wardenferry419:
Muchas gracia, Dina, y buenos noches.
Dina:
De nada y buenas noches
KurtinStGeorge:
The only thing I can add to this conversation is the Dresden Files, and particularly the first three books, are very much influenced by 1940's detective fiction. In Storm Front, Jim lifted the basic plot structure of "Farewell My Lovely" by Raymond Chandler and made a few clever twists and then added magic. (Though a very well thought out magic system.) In both books the detective starts investigating a murder, there is a criminal who is not the murderer but for his own reasons doesn't want the investigator getting involved, there is another murder of someone who knows too much and in both novels it's a women. I almost forgot the best part; in both books the investigator is involved in a separate investigation, looking for a missing person, but in the end both investigations are really the same investigation.
So all the conventions Jim used to create and animate Harry can't just go away. They remain integral to who Harry is and how he relates to women in general. Now if you see the same or very similar descriptions of women in the Alera series or in the newer Cinder Spires book (books whenever we get more), then the criticism leveled against Jim's writing is a much more valid argument.
Of course, it might be argued that those two series are modeled after genres with a particular take on the world and the people in it. For example, Jim has said the Cinder Spires is basically Horatio Hornblower sailing ship adventure with a steam punk twist. I've never read any Horatio Hornblower books so I can't go any further than that. The beta readers who have read samples of other types of novels Jim has played around with; like a hard scifi X-Files on the moon concept that his beta readers weren't that hot on, might have better insight into this question.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Dina on April 12, 2018, 11:58:32 PM ---Yes, I always quite the same part of Harry Potter, when Hermione explains Ron and Harry what Cho is feeling. It was obvious for me and for Hermione, but Ron and Harry said that was impossible, it was too complex.
That said, I don't believe in masculine and feminine qualities.
--- End quote ---
Yet, Hermione ended up marrying Ron....
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