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fandomsecrets2012-08-09 06:59 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2012-08-09 06:59 pm
[ SECRET POST #2046 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2046 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - spam secret ].
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More seriously speaking, I was struggling to put this into coherent sentences, so I'll copy-paste part of the comment that an anon posted below:
"The problem is that GRRM sexualizes his young, female characters in an exploitative and male-gazey way. See the Amazon link that's going around for a quick, condensed look at how often he writes about Dany and Sansa's budding, sweating, swollen, small breasts. He doesn't write about his male characters that way. He doesn't talk about Robb walking around with his growing, budding cock swinging gently between his young thighs. He only sexualizes the male characters in sexual situations. The point is that GRRM is making female sexuality all about grown men perving on them-- budding female sexuality that belongs to and is on display for men, not something that is part of the characters."
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If it was an equal-opportunity kind of thing, not from the point of view of the story and setting, mind, but from the point of view of the focus of the narrative, and so, of the author, I would feel, well, uncomfortable, because it would be dark subject matter I'm reading about, but not annoyed or angry about the creepy sexist and ephebophilic vibes coming from the author.
Like, if the setting is sexist and and dreadful and has rape and other such terrible things, okay, I could accept it as being a part of that world, but having the author sound like he's getting off on it is what takes me out of the story and reminds me that I'm reading the words of a man who totally imagined all these scenes and then wrote them down with loving attention to the bodies of the women and young girls in a way that is very skeevy.
In the interest of disclosure, I have only read passages of the books, not the books themselves. Every time I want to give them a chance (because author creepiness aside, they sound like something I might enjoy reading), I find out something even worse about them and the author himself that puts me off.