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Old 11th July 2006, 05:52 PM   #11 (permalink)
Thadlerian
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Re: Let's coin a new term: "Wotism"

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Originally Posted by rikkkkup
How was it decided that "wotism" described the women in the wheel of time? I would think that it described the wheel of time as a whole..
The same way as Tourette Syndrome doesn't describe all the works of the physican Gilles de la Tourette, but rather a single syndrome that he determined, and which is named after him: Wotism doesn't describe the women of WoT, it describes a general tendency of modern Fantasy to practice a rather strange (and potentially counter-productive of gender equality) male-female differentiation. Which I first recognized in WoT (thus named), so that I could later recognize it in stuff like Pawn of Prophecy.

As for the forum name... oh well, seems we'll have to compete for the term.
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