Anyway. Anne Brontë and I call shenanigans. I think fiction is in need of more women who are "masculine" but not in the sense of "oh look, she knows kung-fu." One of the things I always liked about Storm Constantine books is how it's pretty much a theme for her characters' reaction (usually the women, the men tend not to think about it) to children to be "lol nope."
Though I think the best way to think about this is to remember that even the most rational people aren't rational all the time. Rayo definitely has Feels. She has lots of them, she just pretends she doesn't, and/or she expresses them differently. Hell, look at her and her mother. There's no doubt in my mind that Rayo thinks the world of Ushas, but the way she expresses that is very much Rational. There are moments where she wishes she wasn't so tall and skinny, moments she acknowledges that she's a bit of a cold fish and some people find it weird, and even once when she's high as a kite she tells Aniti how she sacrificed having close personal relationships in order to do her job. But she continues to do it because she loves her work and to her the trade is more than worth it.
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Anyway. Anne Brontë and I call shenanigans. I think fiction is in need of more women who are "masculine" but not in the sense of "oh look, she knows kung-fu." One of the things I always liked about Storm Constantine books is how it's pretty much a theme for her characters' reaction (usually the women, the men tend not to think about it) to children to be "lol nope."
Though I think the best way to think about this is to remember that even the most rational people aren't rational all the time. Rayo definitely has Feels. She has lots of them, she just pretends she doesn't, and/or she expresses them differently. Hell, look at her and her mother. There's no doubt in my mind that Rayo thinks the world of Ushas, but the way she expresses that is very much Rational. There are moments where she wishes she wasn't so tall and skinny, moments she acknowledges that she's a bit of a cold fish and some people find it weird, and even once when she's high as a kite she tells Aniti how she sacrificed having close personal relationships in order to do her job. But she continues to do it because she loves her work and to her the trade is more than worth it.