Thursday, February 16, 2017

Sexual violence and the motivations of male characters in fiction (tweets by Alyssa Wong) Fantasy

Twitter link to the first tweet here. Her tweets continue after the original cut, so click "show more" when you hit that part. She also links 3 articles by authors about this subject that are also very informative.

Here's a couple of highlights:

I am so, so deeply angry & so, so done with stories where female characters are brutalized in order to motivate men & fuel their angst.

Not only is it a lazy move for a writer to make, the self-centeredness & implicit lack of empathy are astounding.

In the comment replies, Catherynne Valente says she has an upcoming project on this called The Refrigerator Monologues.



Submitted February 17, 2017 at 01:42AM by KristaDBall http://ift.tt/2lY8W8j Fantasy

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