MoA had a potentially negative effect on "teenys" and their views on women's roles
If that is so, then god(dess) help the teenys and the world they're about to inherit from the generation of women before them. It is a NEGATIVE effect that young women were given such a balanced view of women's roles that it disturbs them when they feel female characters are being marginalized, as they so often are in traditional myth? Not on my planet. If those women are planning to become Arthurian scholars, then yes, it is important for them to understand that Bradley's is a modern revision of a myth of which there are dozens if not hundreds of versions and that her characters, male and female, are by no means quintessential. But this:
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.
just makes me absolutely THRILLED that those younger women dismissed as "teenys" take MoA so seriously that they will fight to defend those female characters, even if they're misguided about the historical context. Your statement above is one of the saddest things I have ever read. Why, as a woman, would you be interested in a mythology in which the women are so intolerable that you don't even relate to them as such?
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If that is so, then god(dess) help the teenys and the world they're about to inherit from the generation of women before them. It is a NEGATIVE effect that young women were given such a balanced view of women's roles that it disturbs them when they feel female characters are being marginalized, as they so often are in traditional myth? Not on my planet. If those women are planning to become Arthurian scholars, then yes, it is important for them to understand that Bradley's is a modern revision of a myth of which there are dozens if not hundreds of versions and that her characters, male and female, are by no means quintessential. But this:
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.
just makes me absolutely THRILLED that those younger women dismissed as "teenys" take MoA so seriously that they will fight to defend those female characters, even if they're misguided about the historical context. Your statement above is one of the saddest things I have ever read. Why, as a woman, would you be interested in a mythology in which the women are so intolerable that you don't even relate to them as such?