nande12 : I get what you´re saying- in movies, books...women are "used" as a symbol for sensuality and they, rarely, have an important role which, in my opinion, doesn´t apply for Game of Thrones
Not sure what exactly nande said, but in response to sayor, its not that women are "used" (at least not in this question to Martin) its the fact that even when a writer creates a main/leader/important character thats a woman, a lot of the time they just don't know how to write from a woman's perspective (much of the time due to the writer being male). This leads to the writer either making them overly "girlie" to emphasize that they are female, or they under "girlie" them and they come across as boring/man-ish/flat/etc. They'll also tend to write less dialogue/scenes/etc. for the character because of it being harder for them, they'll tend to focus more onto the characters they find easier to write about.
Most books you'll find with well written female characters happen to be written by females because they have a much easier time of making a "good" female.
(Not that their aren't many books by guys with good female chars, GoT for one, just you'll have to search a lot more to find em)
Most books you'll find with well written female characters happen to be written by females because they have a much easier time of making a "good" female.
(Not that their aren't many books by guys with good female chars, GoT for one, just you'll have to search a lot more to find em)