I accepted all the sexist workings on the werewolf culture on the basis that a society made up mostly of men, especially men from more antiquated backgrounds, would likely be run like that and that if there were more women werewolves they would step up and kick ass. But then that begs the question of WHY the author decided to make it like that in the first place, and to me it just seems a way to make Mercy seem rebellious (because she thinks that sexism sucks! How rare and enlightened!) and also weed out the likelihood of other strong/important women in the pack.
…Kyle wears pink cowboy fetish-wear to work? Oh my god. I’m a lesbian, and I’d judge him for being TACKY and UNPROFESSIONAL and also TACKY. Kyle was presented as being fashionable in the first book…pink cowboy-wear is not fashionable, dammit. It’s just…well, it seems like a straight person’s idea of LOL SO GHEY. I mean, you might see that at a Pride Parade or a kink party, but nowhere else.
My only issue with Kyle in the first book was that he flirted with one of the werewolf men because he thought he was homophobic. The idea of ‘gay guy flirts with homophobe to piss him off’ is something I’ve seen in fiction before (always written by a straight person) and while I don’t think that it would NEVER happen, I feel like most straight people don’t get how risky that actually is. Most gay people are very aware of the hostility that people bear us, and how often that turns into violence and even murder. Making a homophobe think you’re coming on to him can actually get you KILLED. Straight people, as they do not live with this, generally think the most that will happen is that he gets mad heeheehee isn’t that funny. I also don’t like the idea of “gay person uses sexuality as weapon against straight person” that this scenario.
Ditto for when Kyle says being a fae is worse than being LGBT because he could just lose his job but a fae could get their house burned down. Sigh. This sounds like something that comes out the mouths of straight people who are like “Oh, it’s 2013! No one cares that you’re gay!” and no, actually, loads of people do, and hate crimes happen, and Kyle would damn well know that, because it’s impossible NOT to know that when you’re LGBT.
…not even going to start on the wife thing. No. Just no. Ugh what even.
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I accepted all the sexist workings on the werewolf culture on the basis that a society made up mostly of men, especially men from more antiquated backgrounds, would likely be run like that and that if there were more women werewolves they would step up and kick ass. But then that begs the question of WHY the author decided to make it like that in the first place, and to me it just seems a way to make Mercy seem rebellious (because she thinks that sexism sucks! How rare and enlightened!) and also weed out the likelihood of other strong/important women in the pack.
…Kyle wears pink cowboy fetish-wear to work? Oh my god. I’m a lesbian, and I’d judge him for being TACKY and UNPROFESSIONAL and also TACKY. Kyle was presented as being fashionable in the first book…pink cowboy-wear is not fashionable, dammit. It’s just…well, it seems like a straight person’s idea of LOL SO GHEY. I mean, you might see that at a Pride Parade or a kink party, but nowhere else.
My only issue with Kyle in the first book was that he flirted with one of the werewolf men because he thought he was homophobic. The idea of ‘gay guy flirts with homophobe to piss him off’ is something I’ve seen in fiction before (always written by a straight person) and while I don’t think that it would NEVER happen, I feel like most straight people don’t get how risky that actually is. Most gay people are very aware of the hostility that people bear us, and how often that turns into violence and even murder. Making a homophobe think you’re coming on to him can actually get you KILLED. Straight people, as they do not live with this, generally think the most that will happen is that he gets mad heeheehee isn’t that funny. I also don’t like the idea of “gay person uses sexuality as weapon against straight person” that this scenario.
Ditto for when Kyle says being a fae is worse than being LGBT because he could just lose his job but a fae could get their house burned down. Sigh. This sounds like something that comes out the mouths of straight people who are like “Oh, it’s 2013! No one cares that you’re gay!” and no, actually, loads of people do, and hate crimes happen, and Kyle would damn well know that, because it’s impossible NOT to know that when you’re LGBT.
…not even going to start on the wife thing. No. Just no. Ugh what even.