Now for the unpopular part. It's kind of a stupid male power fantasy where women are objectified and it really hasn't bothered me till Proven Guilty. I hadn't really notice it till Molly in this book. But now that I look back on it was kind of always there (some woman kind of escape it, Murphy being one of them). Every women is sexualized (the only ones who weren't was the troll girl who dies, and some of the female wizards who we know nothing about) to the ump degree. Now I think most people realize the Dresden Files isn't anything other than dumb soap opera fun but every time I tried to bring this point up about the Dresden Files I get booed down. Bringer me to my other unpopular opinion, is when read critically Dresden Files (along with a lot of genre, which I think is a reflection of 'mainstream' culture) has a lot of problems (and I don't mean things like prose but the unfortunate implications of some plot points like Injun 'stereotypical native american name' of course only his closet white friend can say it) people overlook simply because people think it's 'dumb fun' to quote myself.
And to bring it home I'll ask a question is this alright? Can we truly read such a thing uncritically and simply enjoy it or do we have to take in all of it, including all the suspect handling of women and non-western ethnicities?
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I also realize this might fall into the cultural outside of Dresden and I just ask to keep it to the books and not fall into a political debate about the state of whomever if possible.
This post has been edited by Studlock: 18 September 2012 - 07:19 AM