And then there's Lewis' attitude towards women, which has been noted by many--all mature women are evil, and when Susan hits puberty and starts wearing nylons and lipstick, she's denied return to Narnia.
Neil Gaiman had a problem with this, and wrote a short story called "The problem of Susan" to redress it.
From a NYT article: "Then there's the unfortunate business with Susan, the second-oldest of the Pevensies, who near the end of the last volume is denied salvation merely because of her fondness for nylons and lipstick - because she has reached puberty, in other words, and has become sexualized. This passage in particular has set off Pullman and other critics (and has caused the fantasy writer Neil Gaiman to publish a kind of payback scenario, in which Susan has grown up to be a distinguished professor, not unlike Lewis, and in which for good measure Aslan performs earth-shaking oral sex on the witch)."
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Neil Gaiman had a problem with this, and wrote a short story called "The problem of Susan" to redress it.
From a NYT article:
"Then there's the unfortunate business with Susan, the second-oldest of the Pevensies, who near the end of the last volume is denied salvation merely because of her fondness for nylons and lipstick - because she has reached puberty, in other words, and has become sexualized. This passage in particular has set off Pullman and other critics (and has caused the fantasy writer Neil Gaiman to publish a kind of payback scenario, in which Susan has grown up to be a distinguished professor, not unlike Lewis, and in which for good measure Aslan performs earth-shaking oral sex on the witch)."