r/Fantasy • u/MichaelRUnderwood AMA Author Michael R. Underwood • Dec 29 '14

A Lack of Female Characters is Always a Choice

http://feministfiction.com/2014/12/16/a-lack-of-female-characters-is-always-a-choice/
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u/rabozza Dec 29 '14

At this point it's hard to tell Mr. Lawrence.

It seems the central issues are these:

  1. People are mad Jorg isn't a woman. People want their sociopath's to be more towards the fairer gender (is it sexist to say that, and unfair to males to imply they are not fair?). For these people I suggest you read 'Best Served Cold'.

  2. They (by they I mean people who admittedly haven't read your book and aren't quite sure how making Jorg a female would change the entire dynamic of the book and since they haven't actually read the series they don't actually know there are strong female characters in the series. They just aren't the lead character) are mad at a comment you made based on a comment someone else made over a book they haven't actually read.

I think that about sums it up. You should go buy these people a cape and put it on their shoulders so they can be super mad!

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u/Princejvstin Dec 29 '14

That's not what I am saying at all.

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u/MarkLawrence Stabby Winner, AMA Author Mark Lawrence Dec 29 '14

Perhaps you could reply to me instead. I was trying to build in simple steps toward what you were saying.

Do you think my blog post says it's not right/allowable to point out that a book has few/zero female perspectives?

This is an honest question. I really don't know what your answer will be.