I'm interested in how everybody is quoting this now that most people got angry at JKR and are done with her, but not earlier when Le Guin actually said it. https://twitter.com/ldrinkh20/status/1307519066001879040

Let's not even pretend that Le Guin herself was without flaw, but let me tell you where I see the difference. In UKL's original Earthsea, there was a wizarding school. Women could not be admitted. She faced criticism on this and other things, she thought about the criticism - 1/

.over the years, in fiction works as well as in essays, Le Guin *deconstructed her own world,* critiqued it harshly HERSELF and in various ways, and ultimately dismantled everything she built in the original Earthsea in response to these critiques.

That, for me, is power. 2/

However, many (most?) people still only know Le Guin's first Earthsea books, not the lifelong self-deconstruction, which, from my perspective is extremely valuable, brave, important, and above all, rare.

ETA just because this apparently needs to be said, the issue with Rowling is not whether her work is perfect (it's not, and nobody's work is perfect, not Le Guin's either), the issue is that Rowling is a flaming TERF.