Right. These were people unfamiliar with the world reading just Dragonflight and they are not wrong about some of its issues. And their analysis that F’lar and Lessa’s relationship might say something about McCaffrey’s own marriage, which was failing at the time, is honestly kind of brilliant.

I’m not criticizing them at all, it’s just an interesting insight into how certain things have changed, including fashions in romance (which I do believe reflect the social status of women).