Idea: more fantasy heroines who don’t look down on female-coded work

lectorel:

Sword-swinging mercenaries who admire the hell out of their sister-in-law’s delicate, painstaking embroidery. Mages who find their experience with running a household helps them organize and control their magic. Desperate rebels who know they are absolutely dependent on the women who cook and mend and care for the wounded.

I am so bored of heroines who sneer at ‘womanly’ things and complain of the uselessness of embroidery. Your average medieval kingdom wouldn’t last a week without people doing women’s work.

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    The World of Warcraft example reminds me of how at the beginning of Deltora Quest (by Emily Rodda), the main protagonist...
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    You don’t have to be one or the other. You can always be both :”))
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    #good analysis of what has become a misogynistic trope #that didn’t start out as one#i am here for the difficult...
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    The Two Princesses of Bamarre IMMEDIATELY sprang to mind while I was reading this thread.
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    And speaking of Tamora Pierce, in the Beka Cooper series the protagonist is partnered with an older, tough as nails...
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