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Game of Thrones Review Gone Wrong: Ginia Bellafonte Is Sexist And Retarded
Last week, Ginia Bellafonte posted a review of HBO’s adaption of Game of Thrones and claimed that no woman would be caught dead reading fantasy novels. Today she posted a non-apology in the Arts Beat in which she admitted that she did not know one….ONE woman who reads fantasy novels.
Well, I’m sorry that your friends have only read Are You There Booze? It’s Me: A Drunk Whore With Nicotine Stains Around My Eyes, Body for Life: A Series of Photoshopped Fat People Who Are Now Ripped or The Life of Pee. I find this pretty insulting, especially since some of the BEST fantasy writers of all time were women.
Anne McCaffery anyone?
And how many legions of female readers just devoured the Elf Quest comics, written and illustrated, again, by a woman, Wendy Pinni along with her husband Richard?
In fact you could argue that the entire genre of speculative fiction was popularized by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Did you have to read that in highschool English, Ginia or were you too busy being super boring?
Or maybe…and I’m just going out on a limb here, maaaaaaaybe you might have a female friend that has read a series of books called, oh I don’t know, hmmm, Harry Potter? Which turned it’s female author into one of the richest people ever and impacted the cultural landscape of literature as much as Dickens and Doyle?
Seriously, what do you all think of her saying that girls don’t like fantasy novels?
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navaha answered:
I think she’s a goddamn idiot.
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minakoheartswrestling answered:
I think some people have their heads too far up their own asses and she likely DOES know several but they aren’t her so she doesn’t care.
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phiabear answered:
Lois McMaster Bujold. That is all.
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takayababy answered:
It’s a load of nonsense. Most girls I know readily devour fantasy novels and scenarios and get more engrossed in them than any guy I know.
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I agree with all of this wholeheartedly, but I have to point out this:...I’m going to use...
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adventurerofplaces answered:
Sounds fucktarded to me. Unless she’s saying incredibly bullshit on purpose just to rack up a few PR disaster points.
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thebergeronprocess reblogged this from dorksplosion and added:
Basically everything
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my favorite writers...time. Her chronicles...Pern are...
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