http://deadsong.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] deadsong.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] lkh_lashouts 2014-07-10 12:59 pm (UTC)

Agreed. Basically everyone is inferior to Le Laurell, this hybrid of manly strength and womanly goddesshood, who embodies all of the superior things about being male while still having a woman's beauty. Poor plebes still stuck with all the downsides of their gender, of which she has none.

(This is actually a huge beef of mine with LKH's books: how she glorifies masculinity as somehow superior to femininity, but only as far as she--or her avatar--can be masculine but still be pretty princesses that everyone wants to fuck. I would love to see a character in the Anitaverse whose personality traits weren't defined by their gender first before anything else. Where they're not strong because they're masculine; they're strong because it's who they are and they've earned that strength regardless of gender. Where they're not weak or emotional because they're feminine, but because perhaps events in their lives have left them powerless; or perhaps they have a naturally empathetic personality that causes them to feel things more deeply than others might. This whole association of masculine = good, strong and feminine = weak, bad needs to stop; but more, the idea that certain traits are only exclusive to certain genders needs to stop. It creates this falsehood that LKH uses as her religion: that for a woman to have any value, she needs to be more like a man. But still hot enough to satisfy men.)

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