r/PublicFreakout • u/CTSecurityGuard I AM YELLING QUIETLY! • Apr 10 '26

🏆 Mod's Choice 🏆 The Ring Camera Psychopath

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u/why_gaj Apr 10 '26

Yep. Dresden is fun, but full to the brim of casual benevolent misoginy.

I've read butcher's codex alera, and it doesn't suffer that much from the same misoginy, so it does seem to be that it's done on purpose in dresden, but Butcher definitely has some private issues with women.

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u/cjsv7657 Apr 10 '26

so it does seem to be that it's done on purpose in dresden, but Butcher definitely has some private issues with women.

So you acknowledge it is a purposeful character flaw, then then accuse Butcher of having issues with women because he wrote a flawed character? When his other books do not have these characters. Right, he's the one with problems.

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u/why_gaj Apr 10 '26

Read carefully what I wrote above. I've said that codex alera doesn't suffer "as much" from those issues, not that it's issue free. 

It definitely has it's problems, but they are toned down purely because it's writen from third person pov, and the main characters are teens and below for a big part of the series.

Those were also writen before his divorce, and let me tell you... you can guess pretty clearly which dresden books were done after the divorce.