I don't want to try to speak for Joan, but I didn't read her comment that way. I read it as saying MoA had a potentially negative effect on "teenys" and their views on women's roles, not that everyone who likes the book is automatically in that category.
I won't comment on the way women are portrayed in the book, as I haven't read any of MZB's work. But I've yet to see a portrayal of women in any version of the Authurian legend (however you want to define that) which I've liked. I'm picky about portrayals of fictional female characters, and seldom like them, perhaps b/c I seldom can relate to them.
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Date: 2003-10-23 03:29 am (UTC)I won't comment on the way women are portrayed in the book, as I haven't read any of MZB's work. But I've yet to see a portrayal of women in any version of the Authurian legend (however you want to define that) which I've liked. I'm picky about portrayals of fictional female characters, and seldom like them, perhaps b/c I seldom can relate to them.