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Bridalhat t1_j0v39ph wrote

Reply to comment by tofu-weenie in Struggling to continue with Women of Troy by Pat Barker by Fast_Chocolate_8288

Hot take: it’s not “feminist” to make a bunch of male characters the worst possible versions of themselves. I wasn’t overly fond of TSOA either, but making the characters misunderstood goody two shoes with modern morals is no worse than “they are all monsters.”

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tofu-weenie t1_j0vcdu1 wrote

I think I mostly agree with that.

I like it when characters feel so real that I imagine them having a life and motivations off the page - good or bad or whatever the author needs to tell a good story. I didn't get that at all with The Silence Of The Girls.

It left like a story in which the women were victims without also being people.

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