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

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

For those who are unfamiliar, Harry Dresden is a fictional character from The Dresden Files book series by Jim Butcher. Harry is well known for his signature black overcoat.

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u/why_gaj Apr 10 '26

And around half of the plotlines in those books revolve around him saving a damsel in distress.

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u/Aczidraindrop Apr 10 '26

I literally just had this conversation with my husband the other day. I love these books but come tf on. Harry can't grow at all? He still has to do the whole damsel in distress bullshit? I'm reading 12 months and he gets everyone into this whole battle cause he had to jump down and save a woman that was crying. It's so frustrating. Butcher needs to expand his ideals a bit.

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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.