I did not in any way suggest that your lack of love for the book was misogynistic. I loathe Jane Austen and many other Victorian women writers whom I was informed in grad school were essential to feminist thought and I really couldn't claim the label if I didn't love them, which is a crock of shit.

I object to this: "...just long enough so that there's one generation of teenies that doesn't shriek..."Why isn't it all about the women?"

And if you don't think that sounds misogynistic, you should consider yourself very fortunate you are from such an oh so clever, educated, sophisticated generation that you think it's bad if girls see the Arthurian mythos as centered on the women. Because you're right -- it wasn't always like that, and if that offends you, I have the names of several charming 80something men with whom I studied who would be happy to explain to you all the reasons women were, are and should be marginal, in the myths, in the study of the myths, and in academia in general.

But then, perhaps, it is teeny of me to think so.