Unfortunately, and I don’t know if it’s just how I read it, I felt that this scene moved on from this to being a bit “tchah, women, eh?” Still, at least it was in keeping with the rest of the novel. Indeed, Elizabeth makes the obvious point to Hawks that he isn’t a typical man in that “ treat them like people.” This might seem an obvious thing after all, women are (shock!) people. It almost seemed that there was the possibility that the treatment of women may have been handled a little better. Claire, the object of some of the characters attentions (though, as Jonathan points out, is certainly the men’s equal with regard to ruthlessness), is portrayed in a deeply misogynistic way.įurthermore, there is a blossoming relationship between one of the main characters, Hawks, and Elizabeth Cummings. Their are a couple of women in the novel, but their portrayal is not particularly sympathetic. This is a novel filled with manly men beating their chests, locking horns and waving their cocks about. In particular, he drew my attention to the misogyny that suffuses it. Rogue Moon was recommended to me on Twitter by Jonathan McCalmont who commented on the gloriously demented nature of the novel.
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