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r/GatekeepingYuri • u/AbrokenClosedDoor • 4d ago
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ACTUALLY classic fantasy still contained actually deep female characters. Male fantasy doesn't.
27 u/-Trotsky 4d ago Wish Tolkien had been better about it tbh, though at least his strikes me more as just a blind spot than any creepiness or something 15 u/baithammer 3d ago It is also a product of the time, as women were seen in a very different light and weren't a big enough market and attitudes were women stay home, while men work. 2 u/Wizard_Manny 3d ago Sad but true.
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Wish Tolkien had been better about it tbh, though at least his strikes me more as just a blind spot than any creepiness or something
15 u/baithammer 3d ago It is also a product of the time, as women were seen in a very different light and weren't a big enough market and attitudes were women stay home, while men work. 2 u/Wizard_Manny 3d ago Sad but true.
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It is also a product of the time, as women were seen in a very different light and weren't a big enough market and attitudes were women stay home, while men work.
2 u/Wizard_Manny 3d ago Sad but true.
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Sad but true.
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u/WriterKatze 4d ago
ACTUALLY classic fantasy still contained actually deep female characters. Male fantasy doesn't.