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Title: Too much battle of the sexes
Review: I like the Jordan series, but the battle of the sexes is becoming fastidious. It's commendable the way Jordan has cast women into powerful roles in the series, but he has done so to a fault. It seems to me that women are not only equal to the men, but superior. The women can hardly say anything at all about the men without some dispariging remark. If the roles were reversed and the comments about the men were made about women, the series wouldn't survive. This book seems to be the culmination of predominant sexist theme in the book. The sexism is the antithesis of what we see in the real world, and it is just as irritating. The book itself is good if you can ignore this feature, or if it doesn't bother you. The idea of Elayne bonding Rand just seems absurd to me and it castrates what should be the most powerful character in the series. Of course I'll keep reading, I have too much time invested in the series to stop now.
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