Mastodawn

I am hugely grateful to these well-informed fantasy fans for taking the time to write these letters rebuking The Guardian for that asinine 'romantasy' opinion piece.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/feb/14/fantasy-fiction-doesnt-need-reclaiming-for-women-they-already-write-and-read-it

Fantasy fiction doesn’t need reclaiming for women – they already write and read it

Letters: Responding to an editorial about the surge in romantasy books, James Latimer writes that romance isn’t only for girls, and Yvonne Williams talks about the synergy of dragons and sex

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In Search of a Better World Feb 15, 2025

@JulietEMcKenna

Sometimes I think the #Grauniad never escaped from the mid nineties and the #LadsMags era. Then there is shit like this where I start to think it never escaped the Seventies...

#TheGuardian #TheGrauniad #The90s #The70s

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Wayward Sun (yak shaver extraordinaire)Feb 15, 2025

@CrypticMirror @JulietEMcKenna I think this partly reflects that generic content is often written by journalists who are at best passingly familiar with their subject - IME, this becomes painfully obvious when the writing touches upon any subject where I happen to know more than just the bare minimum.

And of course that incentivizes the lazy reproduction of ancient prejudices over anything relevant or interesting 😐

Good for the readers to push back! And a hooray for all the expert journalists who actually know their shit, the Beth Moles and Carl Zimmers and Brian Krebses and their friends out there...