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A review by talysalankil
Scarlet and the White Wolf by Kirby Crow
Did not finish book. Stopped at 24%.
Review edited on 27/2/2014
Did not finish this book.
Being gay, or accepting of queer people in general, is not an excuse for misogyny. I say it when bloggers like Perez Hilton sexually harass an actress claiming "I'm gay so it's okay" and I'll say it when a book is riddled with too much misogyny for my brain to process.
It's one thing to enforce gender roles in a society inspired by our own. It's another to create a society from scratch where polygamy is allowed, and each "wife" is essentially a slave. Not even necessarily a sex slave, because this book apparently assumes every man is secretly gay and/or homo-leaning bisexual. I guess women are inferior lovers on top of inferior beings, or something.
Oh, and it's one of these books where the heteronormativity is still present, apparently. Add the misogyny to that and the "passive" men in a same-sex relationship are mocked as much as women. I think one of the main characters is good because… he only mocks him instead of outright calling him a non-manly abomination? Yeah no. Thank you but no.
Also, I really don't need to be told on every page that the characters are handsome.
ETA: I don't know why it took me so long to notice, but I haven't even mentioned the worst part about those two chapters:
The premise of the romance in this book is rape.
I'm not kidding. Maybe it gets better later on, but when Scarlet and Liall first meet, Liall goes "I want to fuck you, but I won't physically force you, so instead I'll prevent you from taking this road which means I'm taking your livelihood from you".
Rape is not just physically forcing yourself on someone. Consent under pressure is not consent. So this is rape.
Did not finish this book.
Being gay, or accepting of queer people in general, is not an excuse for misogyny. I say it when bloggers like Perez Hilton sexually harass an actress claiming "I'm gay so it's okay" and I'll say it when a book is riddled with too much misogyny for my brain to process.
It's one thing to enforce gender roles in a society inspired by our own. It's another to create a society from scratch where polygamy is allowed, and each "wife" is essentially a slave. Not even necessarily a sex slave, because this book apparently assumes every man is secretly gay and/or homo-leaning bisexual. I guess women are inferior lovers on top of inferior beings, or something.
Oh, and it's one of these books where the heteronormativity is still present, apparently. Add the misogyny to that and the "passive" men in a same-sex relationship are mocked as much as women. I think one of the main characters is good because… he only mocks him instead of outright calling him a non-manly abomination? Yeah no. Thank you but no.
Also, I really don't need to be told on every page that the characters are handsome.
ETA: I don't know why it took me so long to notice, but I haven't even mentioned the worst part about those two chapters:
The premise of the romance in this book is rape.
I'm not kidding. Maybe it gets better later on, but when Scarlet and Liall first meet, Liall goes "I want to fuck you, but I won't physically force you, so instead I'll prevent you from taking this road which means I'm taking your livelihood from you".
Rape is not just physically forcing yourself on someone. Consent under pressure is not consent. So this is rape.