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REVIEW: As the Villainess, I Reject These Happy-Bad Endings! Novel




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Vaisaga



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 10, 2021 3:05 pm Reply with quote
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a couple of incorrect pronouns


You don't give context for this in the review proper so I have to ask: Do you mean this in a typo way, or in a "character doesn't identity with the pronoun used" kind of way?
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Princess_Irene
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 11, 2021 6:30 am Reply with quote
In a typo way. Sorry, should have contextualized that!
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 12, 2021 10:08 am Reply with quote
I am not a feminist but I have read it oft-asserted by them that men should be feminists because of the harm that patriarchal systems inflict on males also. Sadly the illustrations of this that get offered up are generally unpersuasive for a bunch of reasons that I will not get into. (Or actually I was going to get into them but decided not for brevity's sake.) But this actually might be a persuasive example of this?

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One of the most interesting is how Iris seeks to reshape basic society to be less offensive to her modern sensibilities. Iris is aghast at how much power her father wields over the women in his family, such as the way she and her mother are made to wear belled chokers with the family crest to prove his “ownership” of them


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Since one of those guys is Iris' twin brother and the other is her fiancé, she also has an interest in saving them from their own worst impulses outside of her and their relationships with Camille.


And this just might possibly be a persuasive example. Does the reviewer find this to be the case? If so, I just might consider picking it up. It being merely a single volume makes it even more easy to consider, and I am curious to see what this author comes up with next.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 12, 2021 2:14 pm Reply with quote
While I can't say definitively that you'll find it more persuasive, I do think that the fact that the system is actively encouraging both the prince and the protagonist's brother to act against their own best interests (they want to be loved by women they have no idea how to treat well, so they resort to terrible methods) does show the way the system harms all genders. It's not that they want to be terrible people, it's that that's all they've been modeled, which helps exactly zero people.

Add to that Iris' goal of erasing the stigma of the soilpox and I think it's safe to say that the author is trying to say something about outdated social systems.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2021 9:00 am Reply with quote
A pity the author used the same name for their main character, as Accomplishments of the Duke's Daughter.

I will probably pick up the first volume now, but I had been avoiding because of that and how crowded the field is getting. Already spend too much on light novels and manga, too much double dipping going on also, so I got to pick and chose carefully.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2021 12:22 pm Reply with quote
TarsTarkas wrote:
A pity the author used the same name for their main character, as Accomplishments of the Duke's Daughter.


I was just thinking that "Iris" is an oddly popular English name for light novel heroines. I haven't seen it making a comeback in English (or at least in my part of the US), so that makes it stand out all the more.
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