Kantor on 15 February 2013
| gergroy said: How about this. What do you guys think of how the roles of woman and men were handled in this series? Jordan got a lot of flack for his treatment of women, do you agree or disagree? why? |
Well, especially early on in the series, there was something fishy going on. He appeared to think that women did nothing but complain about men the moment they were outside of the company of a man. Nynaeve was genuinely unbearable around book 5 when she would just whine about Thom and Juilin all hours of the day.
He certainly improved a lot towards the end of the series, though.
Also, he does show quite a few matriarchal societies. Andor's monarch is always female; Far Madding bans men from being merchants; Altara has some creepy female-on-male domestic violence overtones; Seanchan has not seen an Emperor for 900 years. I'm not really sure what he was trying to get at here.
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