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spearcarrier
2011-07-14 01:28 am UTC (link)

Ah, the gender- and LGBT-fail. There's plenty to go around, from the female hexen-wolf who's so much more out of control and aroused by violence compared to her male counterparts in Fool Moon to the calmer male/more violent and less rational partnership dynamic he's used not just once, but twice.

Then there's the fact that the only characters with any sort of non-straight sexuality or attraction partner have all been women, with two of the three being vampires and the last someone who 'experimented in college'. Now, some of the male vampires will refer to men as 'food' with all that entails, but unlike the women their same-sex feeding/attachment is never shown. Then again, the fact that I'm having to pull in vampire feeding preferences because it's the closest situation to non-straight sexuality in the series should say it all.

I dunno how people don't notice these things either, honestly, but they're pretty obvious with even half a glance. Unfortunately, some people don't want to even look straight at it in the first place.

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	rosehiptea 2011-07-14 11:12 pm UTC (link)
	the female hexen-wolf who's so much more out of control and aroused by violence compared to her male counterparts in Fool Moon Was she the one who was going around naked in a fight, or right before a fight, or something like that? Granted, I don't remember the book that well, and didn't finish it, but I seem to remember that. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

spearcarrier
2011-07-15 02:40 am UTC (link)

Probably at the end of the book. She was the one who lost control in talking to Dresden and almost ripped out his guts with her nipples at full attention at the thought. She had to be restrained by one of her male partners.

Then there's the twins in Grave Peril with the female half who tries to jump Dresden (or Michael, she's not very discriminating) at every opportunity and has to be controlled/rescued by her brother, who's eerily similar to the childlike and destructive female character in Changes who has to be counseled to be careful and prudent by her male significant other.

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	rosehiptea 2011-07-15 02:41 am UTC (link)
	I didn't get to the end of the book though, so maybe somebody else was naked, or I've just forgotten the whole thing. It really didn't impress me. (I'm not even saying that due to the fail, to be honest... I just couldn't get into it.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	spearcarrier 2011-07-16 02:58 pm UTC (link)
	I understand. Myself, I used to love the series and have read them all repeatedly, but that was before I'd checked as much of my privilege and bias. Now I just can't unsee his massive fail. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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