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Best question answer at the Virginia book signing
groinkick:
--- Quote from: Griffyn612 on June 12, 2018, 02:54:37 AM ---There was likely some passion in her voice on the subject. She herself wasn't what you'd call the "Dresdenverse Standard" of tall willowy blonde. She was likely speaking from a personal interest in seeing others like herself portrayed (honestly, she was very close to what I've always pictured Charity as, only younger) which is a common subject these days. Representation is incredible for those that don't normally have it.
But I think both sides were respectful. She seemed disappointed in his response, but that's her right, as is his desire to tell his story as he sees it.
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To quote Nora Roberts "I like all my characters to be beautiful". I don't see anything wrong with Jim having beautiful women around Harry.
Dina:
I see so much trouble with that quote that it's almost sickening.
As I said, I think that JB does quite well in diversity. For instance, his Knights include a black Russian, a Christian Japanese, a Jewish and your classic catholic white man. He also has Susan Rodriguez, Carlos Ramirez, Martha Liberty, Ancient Mai, Listens-to-the-Wind and, of course, Rashid. The bad guys have the Ortegas and Kumori, I suppose.
But most of the women are beautiful, sexy and slim. Also tall, except for Karrin. I've argued before that Harry, as a non-reliable narrator, can be seeing women as more beautiful than they are (specially when he is younger or has not been laid in a while). But perhaps some "normal woman" would be a good addition?
Since Susan is dead and the others are secondary characters, the main women are currently a bunch of white beauties. So I don't think it's bad to ask a question about that. It doesn't mean forcing Jim to do anything. Heck, for all we know, perhaps he was secretly laughing to himself because Peace Talks includes a fat Asian woman as a main character. But seeing reading a bunch of males in this thread laughing at a girl who cannot defend herself because of a reasonable question that may be important for her was sad for me. I also admit I have triggers, as male privilege is really bad here and causes many deaths everyday, so we are staying alert, trying to change our minds, to make people realize of things and prejudices that make us think that things have to be in a way and cannot be different. This moves quickly, and our expectations change all the time.
Romulan Cmdr:
You d be surprised at this so-called diversity push that actually is about exclusion. I saw on a FB thread about Dresden Files where several were arguing that the character was whatever color/race/gender that they the reader wanted it to be, and the author's descriptions didnt matter. in the particular case they said that they didnt want Murphy to be white, blond and short because thats not the head cannon they wanted.
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Fcrate:
Remember Lash changing her hair and saying "There are too many blondes in your life, my host". Jim is aware of that.
I think all of you are reading too much into it. To me a story is just a story, I read it for fun and nothing more.
Besides, you don't ask a question like that and expect an answer that you will like. Maybe she has a point, but still, some questions are best left alone, at least in public.
Griffyn612:
--- Quote from: Romulan Cmdr on June 12, 2018, 11:25:26 PM ---You d be surprised at this so-called diversity push that actually is about exclusion. I saw on a FB thread about Dresden Files where several were arguing that the character was whatever color/race/gender that they the reader wanted it to be, and the author's descriptions didnt matter. in the particular case they said that they didnt want Murphy to be white, blond and short because thats not the head cannon they wanted.
:(
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I don't see a problem with that. Especially for a series about a white guy that the author once said could be played by Will Smith. Head canon for Murphy could be that she's not naturally blonde, or she's biracial, or she's got ties to Solomon Island as much as Ireland, or really whatever else they want.
Heck hounds, I used to picture Thomas as a blonde and Kincaid as a brunette. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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