Stephen Baxter
Discussion
A big fan of Stephen Baxter but there's an irritating pattern to his characters in the last few books.
The women are generally very bright and capable, but the men tend to be hopeless or worse. Sometimes flawed and weak but basically sympathetic. Sometimes worthy of grudging respect but madly egotistical and you certainly wouldn't trust them. But about 50% are violent psychos.
We take it for granted in sitcoms than the men are always badly flawed in some way but the women aren't. This is presumably because most are written by men. An exception being Ab Fab which is written by women and where the women are disasters.
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But not so much in books except for SBs. Is there a feminist literary agent putting pressure on him?
The women are generally very bright and capable, but the men tend to be hopeless or worse. Sometimes flawed and weak but basically sympathetic. Sometimes worthy of grudging respect but madly egotistical and you certainly wouldn't trust them. But about 50% are violent psychos.
We take it for granted in sitcoms than the men are always badly flawed in some way but the women aren't. This is presumably because most are written by men. An exception being Ab Fab which is written by women and where the women are disasters.
.
But not so much in books except for SBs. Is there a feminist literary agent putting pressure on him?
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