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I don't think I can read the phrase "modern audiences" anymore except in the Critical Drinker's voice.

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Bingo. Pity there isn't a "drunken Scotsman" font.

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Sep 4Liked by Declan Finn

And people go gaga over Kate Crackernuts on the grounds she is not a typical fairytale princess. And I sigh and think, you people really need to read more fairy tales. There are heroines who have to wear out six pairs of iron shoes and three iron staves while searching for their lost husbands. There are heroines who have to chase after their brothers and stay silent under great provocation -- which their brothers failed, and got turned into stone. There are heroines who have to lure the Queen of the Snakes to home and then get in her way and implore her to give back the husband.

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Yeah. I'd need to check between Grim and Anderson, but I think the ladies usually come out on top. Men ... eh.

German fairy tales, what can you do?

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Men usually come out on top too. There are heroes who have to chase so far after their lost wives that they have to consult a man who can talk with all the beasts in the world, and then one for all the fish in the world, and finally one for all birds in the world. There are heroes who have to secure the help of animals to catch a witch's horses before they lose their heads. There are heroes who, while working as gardeners, transform into knights and turn the entire tide of battles.

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Narcissists think the world revolves around them. Ergo, those SF "critics" are narcissists.

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Borderline solipsists, really.

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Not to mention Innelda Isher. Please tell me she is not a “strong female character”.

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Not as familiar with that one.

Though the definition of SFC is basically become synonymous with "boss bitch." So I wouldn't use the term. Tough and well-written may b e more accurate?

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