Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-98.247.168.42-20181122042639/@comment-32987979-20190614025708

The elves are just... weird. I mean, I get why the females aren't strong, because there's no need for them to be. Up until Sophie came along, they all were under the impression that there was no danger. Besides, they had their abilities, which already made them strong. But then, why are all the males strong? They were in no more danger than the women, and they had no reason to be strong. The only reason they would work out is because society is telling them they they should, just like in the real world where men are scorned if they aren't tough and masculine. So Shannon trying to pull the "The elves don't have sexism, unlike those evil humans!" Thing is so untrue. They have the same gender standards as we do.

Also, there are sooo many racial stereotypes. There's supposed to be no difference between elves with different skin colors, right? Like, they just look that way, but they all have the same traditions, language and all eat the same food. That's what I took away from it, anyway. But look at the Song family. They all have (I believe) Vietnamese names, they're all "Asian" somehow, even though different skin tones are preferably mixed, and Linh is often shown wearing traditional clothing from some Asian culture  (it's never really specified what ethnicity they are.) When Sophie sees a young Wylie in Lodestar, he's shown with an afro. Fitz and Alden have accents somehow, even though nobody else does? Where did those accents come from? Now, there would be nothing wrong with them having these different traits. If they were human, where we have many different cultures and live in different parts of the world with different traditions, religions and styles. But all elves are shown to have the same kind of traditions and culture. They're not supposed to have specific races and stereotypes, but obviously they do. Again, for Shannon to try and say that the elves don't see race and that the color of one's skin is irrelevant, is just false. She SAYS that the elves do this and that and are all equal, but what actually happens in the books directly contradicts that. That's what I mean by Shannon being really bad at show vs tell.