Meanwhile, it is winter in Narnia, and has been for ever so long, and we shall both catch cold if we stand here talking in the snow. Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be if you came and had tea with me?
susan pevensie didn’t “lose faith” for being too girly or being told to suppress anything, ultimately she lost it because she used those “nylons and lipsticks” to forget about narnia and all they had, to the point of pretentiousness – telling her siblings about those “funny little games we used to play as children”. A girl can still grow up and like womanly things without being like that.
And the start of the very first book goes “someday, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again”. There might come a point in susan’s life where she reconciles with narnia.
So no, JKR, susan didn’t “lose faith” because she became a woman.
I seriously can’t even with those “CS Lewis wuz a misogynist because Susan“ posts that occasionally float around. Lucy was the freaking heroin of the first book, the first human permitted to see Narnia in years.
Yeah the movie made it pretty clear who had what weapons. And Lucy was a small child? Why are people upset that the little girl wasn’t shooting enemies?
And you know what? In the books Lucy ended up being an archer anyway. In Horse and His Boy we find out that Lucy joined the Narnian army in disguise as an archer despite her brothers telling her not to, and yet she’s not really judged for it by any of the other characters, she is not presented as being wrong, and it’s pretty much an open secret that she fights in battles.
Wide Spread Interests 