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Today I bought this. From the introduction:
>[. . .] I constantly receive stories that are perfectly good but the plot is obselete: a strong woman successfully challenges an anti-feminist society and is finally allowed to take up her place as a warrior or wizard.
>now there is nothing wrong with this story except - that it should now be taken for granted; yet I still receive many stories where the writer drags out all the old perfunctory anti-feminist arguments ("in this society/town/county we don't send a girl to do a man's work." . . . "Who ever heard of a woman warrior" . . . etc. etc. - for equally perfunctory rebuttal. The conclusion is all too predictable, especially by now, and in this particular anthology we know she'll win; there's no suspense, no real conflict.
>After three years of strong-female-protagonist stories we should be able to take our heroines for granted, in fantasy if not in real life.
The more time passes the more we regress.

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