Sometime last year I read a thread on this site. As I recall it was posted due to discussion on the fantasy board about women, and born of some people arguing that powerful/action-capable women in a medieval setting are "unrealistic".
I remember I found it very interesting, but can't remember the title or where exactly it was posted.
It had a link to this great article where a writer went talked about the overlooked place of women in war in the old days, citing many examples of women being a significant part of armies and societies with warrior women. Also, in either this particular article or one linked to it a lady writer went into her frustration over how our minds have been conditioned to go to certain places when writing female characters. The example she mentioned was about her female knight-type who had a male nemesis, and her first instincts were always to make it about past sexual assault, rather than him wronging her in some other way.
I'd really like to read all this again, in more depth. Does anyone else remember this?
I remember I found it very interesting, but can't remember the title or where exactly it was posted.
It had a link to this great article where a writer went talked about the overlooked place of women in war in the old days, citing many examples of women being a significant part of armies and societies with warrior women. Also, in either this particular article or one linked to it a lady writer went into her frustration over how our minds have been conditioned to go to certain places when writing female characters. The example she mentioned was about her female knight-type who had a male nemesis, and her first instincts were always to make it about past sexual assault, rather than him wronging her in some other way.
I'd really like to read all this again, in more depth. Does anyone else remember this?
