Kantor said:
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. |
I think he was getting a lot of flack at the beginning and started creating societies where woman dominate. One issue that I think kind of exemplifies Jordans view of woman in the series is the difference between how men and women use the one power.
Women gain access to the one power by submitting to it, while men gain access by wrestling control of it.
