the_faery_queen said:brys, he is, i have to say, a perfect example of what the others have said about a goodkind fan! i don't mean to offend, yar, but you are. you are defending goodkind, as brys said, by dismissing our opinions as not good enough. exactly the sort of thing i get from other goodkind fans and the odd jordan one.
i never said homophobic. tho i thik he has an issue with women that he creates lesbian, leather wearing bondage type control freak women.
oh no no. i was a rape councellor for a while, let me tell you that his potrayal of rape is DEEPLY incorrect and wrong. rape is for power. it is NOT carried out the way he has it. rape victims, or those threatened with it, do not dismiss it, the way that kahlan did. a\nd lets see, strong female characters, you mean kahlan? who spends her life whining for richard every time they are seperated? um no.
and what about the countless accounts of graphic violence and rape towards women that has no purpose? what about the kahlan tasting her own menstral blood, that also had no pupose, when she gave a man she hated (or thouoght she did) a blow job. that's a strong woman, right? one who thinks, oh well, im married, lets make the best of it and give a blow job to this guy that i hate. and taste my own blood at the same time. and i am talking about khalan;s sister. who had NO other point but to be raped and give up her throne to her sister. why was she raped? what was the point? most usurpers kill the monarch, they don't throw them into a pit to be raped. and then she was so upset she gave up the throne. and what was the point in that?
goodkind did no research. none. i councelled rape victims for a while. i can tell you that. im sorry for your wife, but seriously, he did no research. none of the accounts are realistic, the fact kahlan is threatened byt gets over it time and again is proof of that. the way that it continuly happens in every book, getting worse, is proof of his misogny, or at the very least, hsi rape fetish. women are gang raped in a school, they have sex with monsters with barbed phallus', the are thrown down a pit to be raped, they are threatened with it. it goes on and on. and that's in the first four books. goodkind wrote his world. he set it up to be any way that he wanted. and what he wanted was for the monster the women had sex with to have a barbed **** so it would hurt and they would bleed. what he wanted was a prophecy that meant kahlan would have her period and then taste her own blood. what he wanted was a whole school of girls to be raped before being sold into slavery, all except the 'good' girl of course. the good are never raped, only the bad are. (except for kahlan's sister) what does that tell you about goodkind? that he sees rape as punishment for bad women. and that is not what rape is.
im sorry, but i disbelieve the man did any research. the way he has such WEAK female characters (and they are weak. they're not strong women) and so much violence towards them, makes me think he is a misognist. especially when added to the way that he spoke to the female fan who wrote to him. telling her she couldn't undrstand his work because she's female.
there is no excuse for the level of violence towards the female character. none at all. it doesnt' show a violent world, for good to rise above. it shows a world of abuse towards women. martin has ONE rape in his first 3 books (or 4) and i still get the idea that his world is violence and misognistic. goodkind has countless rapes and scenes of violence, but as they are all (with one exception) towards women, i am left with the feeling that HE himself is the misognist. not his world.
to be truly honest, you're behaving like a bit of a fundie, only with goodkind as your god. it seems to be a total blind acceptance that goodkind has done no wrong and anyone who dislikes him is callous and a bully with an agenda. we dont have an agenda. we just don't like him!
Again, that is your opinion and you are entitled to it.
I can and do disagree with you, as I know and have seen the reasearch and know some of the people Goodkind has done with reasearch with. To make a blanket statement "goodkind did no research. none",is nothing more than an assumptionon your part to which you cannot speak accuratly. You may well have an opinion that differs from yours, but you cannot make that a valad statement as it is noly speculation on your part.
You can say I would specualte that he has or has not done this or that, but that is al the further you can go because you do not know what reasearch he has or has not done.