[LMB] Re: Strong female characters . . .

[Azalais Aranxta]

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Ruth Frey wrote:
> that.  If you're referring to Helen's mom, the "famous
> feminist" type who is rather brutally lampooned at the
> beginning of the story, well, that type of feminist *is* out
> there (in all senses of the phrase), and I don't always have
> loads of sympathy for them myself.

Nor do I, but the authorial voice declaring that feminism was
passe and that this individual and others like her showed us the
reason why I found difficult to swallow even in 1975, when I was
11, and these stories and the Telzey ones were my very favourite
ones ever.

~malfoy


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