On the other hand, it played into a woman-nature connection that I pretty much never enjoy in fiction. Except occasionally when Ursula K Le Guin does it. Though even then I often don't.
I read someone else talking about this making the point that it's maybe not actually about gender but about class. Like, there's Alosha (I think her name was?) who has the same kind of magic as the other male wizards, and they're all upper class, right? And then at some point Agniezka reads the journal of a male wizard who has the same type of magic as herself, and he's also from a village.
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on 12/1/17 04:08 pm (UTC)I read someone else talking about this making the point that it's maybe not actually about gender but about class. Like, there's Alosha (I think her name was?) who has the same kind of magic as the other male wizards, and they're all upper class, right? And then at some point Agniezka reads the journal of a male wizard who has the same type of magic as herself, and he's also from a village.