Recent content by JaymesFogarty

Unfortunately, I entirely agree with you. There are too few female character in his works - there should not only have been more, but also better development on the existing ones. Oh. I'm not sure what to do now. My only previous point was that the few female characters he has aren't terrible...

Once again, I'm punished by how poorly I convey what I'm trying to say. I don't mean that war hasn't been a problem in the lives of women at all, historically or not. What I was trying to say (and what I am continually dancing around but not expressing properly) is that the literal experience of...

Thank you for taking what I said, and making it sound as though I am the biggest misogynist on the internet. (I am not, by the way. Women are lovely. Men are too.) That is not at all what I was saying. The act of fighting on the front lines, sharing camaraderie with fellow troop members, and...

Once again, I'm writing from the point of view of Tolkien. I'm sorry if I didn't make that clear. I'm not trying to underplay the role of Amazonian women, Roman dignitaries, and god knows how many other women that have had a role in combat throughout history. However, Tolkien. WW1. Millions of...

I'm not sure if you've read my previous long post on the Lord of the Rings; if not, scroll up and have a look because I'll just be reiterating what I've probably said above less articulately. If you remember the story of Lord of the Rings, the vast majority of it, and I mean 700+ pure pages of...

That's where I'd have to disagree. I don't see any group in society as the default group for the heroic protagonist, or their love interest, or the villain, or any other typical role in a story. You said that a default straight white male is what the hero "ought" to be to us. Again, I strongly...

Actually, as a fan of Tolkien that's not the best line to go down. Not that your point isn't astute in a general sense, but every single enemy in the Lord of the Rings is male barring Shelob. That's every orc, goblin, monster, wizard and general nutter encountered in the novel. Women are only...

It's unfortunate that what you're saying is, even today, very true. I can find little motivation to vilify older generations for presenting war and dying for your family/country as a predominantly male thing, (as once again, it was, and unfortunately to this day still is) but fiction is supposed...

Dreadfully sorry. (I get ahead of myself sometimes.) Ahem. Stupid patriarchal this and patriarchal that! That should do it.

Sorry, posted twice.

Or you could look at the historical significance behind the penning of the Lord of the Rings. Tolkien, (allegory hater or not) drew deeply upon the traumatic experiences of the First World War, in which several of his closest friends died, as he was forced to witness wartime atrocities first...

The only reason I mention her is because she is being cited as 'one of the most dangerous women' in the gaming industry. Nutty feminists (not feminists, nutty feminists) are given far too much credence in fiction. Everyone seems to forget that there are many problems that men could find in the...

That was exactly what I wanted to hear - what people thought. I think it's a shame that men are default everything - but feminists make it all but impossible to change that. If you have a female protagonist, regardless of what happens some women are going to ***** about it online about how...

The thought was brought on by the many references to Anna Sarkesian's videos regarding sexism in video games. She was calling for things like more female protagonists, and I couldn't help but think that with more female protagonists, we should have better female representation everywhere. By far...

Okay, now that I've got your attention, I thought I should bring up a problem I've seen in the game industry. This is best seen in Tomb Raider. Lara Croft, a terrified young woman, struggles to survive on an island, in the process murdering hundreds and hundreds of men. And only men. Excluding...