The part of the tradition that I knew best was mostly written {or rewritten for children} in England and northern Europe. The principal characters were men. If the story was heroic, the hero was a white man; most dark-skinned people were inferior or evil. If there was a woman in the story, she was a passive object of desire and rescue {a beautiful blond princess}; active women {dark, witches} usually caused destruction or tragedy. Anyway, the stories weren't about the women. They were about men, what men did, and what was important to men.
( Ursula K. Le Guin )
[ A Wizard of Earthsea ]
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