Pathetic Women

Is it just me or do some authors have a penchant for creating weak, whiny female characters? And I'm not talking about male authors, the chicks!!

I am currently reading through a series of novels that were recommended to me by a co-worker and, while I like the stories, I am getting tired of reading about these leading women who are determined to be pacifists when they are being mistreated and threatened by forces that could be dealt with with great finality if they used the resources available to them.  And to add insult to injury, they don't heed the direction of the people who have lived the new life they are coming into for years (centuries). Someone tells them to stay put, they leave and walk right into danger. Someone tells them "don't go play in the brier bush" and they jump in ass first then cry for healing and help when, had they not done what they were warned not to do, they wouldn't be in the situation to begin with. Like they are two years old and don't know the stove is hot!!!!

I am aware that I can sometimes be very vengeful and too ready for payback against people who have done wrong, not necessarily to me, but to any person that would be defenceless unless someone came to their aid. But to have stories about these women who, before they meet these men have these harrowing experiences and live through them just fine using common sense and good reflexes, and then they meet these men, come into this new lifestyle and lose all the sense they had and their reflexes. Do any of these authors think it ridiculous to have a man beat someone senseless, prepare to rape them, and plan to keep them tied up to "have fun" with them for days on end pitied by the person they are attacking? And then, for that person to not want them killed, and for that person to not want to watch if they can't do the deed themselves? I mean, in one of the books the chick flipped because she was the only way link to the men being able to kill her attackers telepathically and as a result, she had to look at the person and watch the murder....SERIOUSLY!!!! If that's all I have to do for you to avenge my abuse then that's just fine with me!!! But again, maybe that's just me.

I'm going to continue reading the books but like I said, the weak women who are supposed to be these people's last hope are so trapped by their own limitations that it seriously irritates me. To have women who need their mate to coerce them into doing what they know is best for them. Or need to have a man to pull them out of danger because they are too paralyzed by their own fear to fight or run for their lives. While fear can be a very paralyzing thing I would think that when faced with your fear or dying, one would choose life.

But like I said, maybe its just me. Apparently these authors have found a market for, in my opinion, pathetic women. And here I am, borrowing them from the library because they were recommended to me by a female reader who, by the way, missed all the relationship and "fighting for your life" and teetering on the edge of extinction parts of the story and only told me about the wild sexual encounters. The books are more than the pathetic women and more than the sex. But the pathetic female leads are really bugging me.

Again, I needed to get that out.