Before anything, I am about a quarter into the 10th book of the Wheel of Time series. I came across an article with the showrunner of the upcoming Amazon Prime adaptation and he was answering questions from Twitter. I guess the changes are to be expected, but one person asked if there will be LGBT representation in the show and he said yes. They also asked about the "problematic" aspects of the book regarding treatment of women (due to torture and punishment).
Those two were the most annoying. The books have a lot of women in power and honestly so far women seem to be more competent than males. I notice the constant whining by some female fans if a female character has the least bit of adversity but men are routinely tortured and beaten ( saw this on the game of thrones reddit). As for the LGBT representation that just goes to the annoying trend of fans who have to "see themselves represented". Goes for everyone men, women, LGBT, etc. I would say you can always write your own story or only read stories written by someone that looks like you. I'm a black male and have read plenty of books where the characters were white and I never once thought about how diverse the characters were because I enjoyed the book. Same goes for books I ready by black, Asian, or Hispanic authors. Like I said, people who obsess over a diversity checklist need to write their own stories.
I remember Peter Jackson said that his goal was to show Tolkien's vision and not his. I guess nobody does that when adapting a book now. I'm undecided if I will watch it. Maybe wait for what they say here or what some of the youtubers I follow say.
In my opinion, this take is almost as wrongheaded as the "all women are in cahoots to destroy men" take. Except this one seems reasonable at first glance, and is thus more harmful and pervasive. In my experience, there's an enormous amount of women (possibly a majority) who don't consider themselves feminist, yet: routinely enjoy painting themselves as victims, often think that men are unfairly prioritized over women, support the idea that we need more women in X just because X currently has more men then women, etc.
Women as a whole, are far from blameless. Sure, the extreme take that women are some unified menace, while amusing is clearly wrong. However this mythical "real women" concept is just pleasant fiction. In reality, women who reject feminist ideas entirely are even more rare than conservative women.
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