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A review by mullemit
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
2.75
It’s almost impressive to be able to make up a complex magic system with physical laws, different practices, and an institution to teach it, and not be able to imagine women as people. For a while I looked past the locker room talk, the objectivization, the fact that for every character we meet 9 out of 10 are men. I kept thinking about it as a good book in spite of the anger I felt every time a woman was boiled down to her ability to please or serve a man (literally wtf to the women are instruments metafor, or women are flames, or wild things, gross!), but in the end that anger is all the book is to me now.
You know, just because you want to write about swords, nobels, and horses and take some light inspiration from historical periods doesn’t mean you have to bring the sexism! It’s actually way more interesting world building if you let women be people?!
You know, just because you want to write about swords, nobels, and horses and take some light inspiration from historical periods doesn’t mean you have to bring the sexism! It’s actually way more interesting world building if you let women be people?!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexism