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Are fantasy readers way too used to old sexist tropes? Consider what KKC fans think about Denna.

http://spigana.spektore.lv/2015/04/22/so-i-went-to-berlin-to-see-patrick-rothfuss/

>So along comes Kvothe, and he’s adventurous and proud, and he loves this woman and she does not immediately fall at his feet, she does not go out of her way to adore him. She doesn’t bend over backwards to make herself available to him. I think people resent that, because some part of them has come to believe this thing they’ve heard in stories again and again and again. They think a woman should make herself available to a man just because the man wants her.