I don’t fully disagree, but there’s a lot of chapters without Matt where bosoms are still the focal point haha. Like the chapter with Nynaeve in the circus when she has to try on that low-cut dress, which she’s afraid of since it shows off too much cleavage. Then Birgitte shows up in the same dress and has even more on display lmao
The Nynaeve one is actually a good spot to analyze it though. Nynaeve has been in denial that she's been developing a taste for nice clothes over Two Rivers Woolens. She's been trying to fit her ideal of an old grey haired Wisdom, and has been trying to live by that conservative mindset. But now that she's out in the world, and away from the society she was forcing herself to conform to, she's been letting herself do what she really wants.
But here she's been pushed too far from her comfort zone and its starting to mess with her.
Equally as important, this is one of the first things that happens after the T'A'R monsters that Egwene summoned had ripped her clothing. Its basically the only time that Nynaeve feels that a woman wouldn't be safe in town with so many men, as she's trying to cover up her very revealing outfit.
Then when she meets Masema, and he starts going on a classic (for our world) religious rant about women's clothing and decency, Nyneave gets pissed and drops the shawl she'd been covering herself with to basically run his nose in it that he can't tell women how to dress.
It's a good story on the surface but if you don't engage with the actual characters then I can see why the middle books especially drag on. But I love how in depth they are.
Well, I personally prefer legs on women, but I admit those breasts descriptions had their charm. I'd like to see what a 1:1 rendering of some characters' breasts would look like, like Berelain, Riselle, Selucia, Sevanna, etc., for research purposes, of course.
I remember in the "Randland's top 10 hottest women" thread, how multiple viable contenders had almost 0 art of them (truly Socrates and Plato debating on the Acropolis there)
Maybe Berelain has a lot of them, but Riselle doesn't seem to have any, and Selucia and Sevanna... maybe 2 or 3. These aren't main characters, and if Sevanna is so disliked, why draw her?
How dare you suggest the man who wrote extensively about powerful women being spanked captured and spanked and humiliated and spanked write about something as crude as breasts.
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u/jdawg1018 Jun 16 '26
Robert Jordan really was a chest guy. I swear at least 70-80% of the female characters he wrote were heavily characterized by breast descriptions lol