guest post – women warriors in preindustrial society
Today at Rogue Blades I have a guest post on the anachronistic quality of female fighters in preindustrial societies (an expansion of some thoughts I’ve had earlier on this blog). Basically, I argue that female warriors were a rarity in preindustrial societies, and that heroic fantasy set in an ancient or a medieval setting should be aware of that to avoid an anachronistic quality.
Needless to say, it’s only been up an hour or so and has already inspired vigorous discussion. 🙂
-JM
Yeah, you got more than your fair share of comments with that post and got accused of being sexist more than once which is ironic because your fiction is anything but sexist.
Thanks!
Actually, the reaction was exactly what I expected – this isn’t my first Internet shitstorm rodeo.