All of the female characters you listed above are monsters and inhuman. I would not have blamed Gawyn one bit if he had not returned to the WT and had let the bloodknives kill Egwene. I would not have blamed Rand one bit if he told Elayne and Aviendha that it was over, he wanted the bond released and, though he would love to see and help raise his children, he didn't really care if he saw their mother again. I loathe the scenes between Tuon and Mat from the beginning, but Tuon in aMoL was just horrible. At first, I wondered if Brandon had simply written the last scene between them poorly - much like the banter between Anakin and Obi-Wan in Episode II was supposed to be amusing (but, instead, made Obi-Wan seem like an annoying, naggy douche dictator who would turn the nicest of people to the Dark Side and made Anakin look like a big spineless whiner), I thought it was possible that Tuon might have been teasing Mat - but I don't think that's the case. Little Miss "the empress cannot love anyone" isn't teasing him at all, she completely means that she can kill him now because she's pregnant. And Mat, instead of telling her to go screw herself, comes off as a spineless dope with his comments about dice.



The one that bothers me most is Rand. The man is now, basically, has more life experience than anyone in the freaking series, but he sees nothing wrong with the way Aviendha and Elayne treat him? Really??? WTF is wrong with him? Any man in his right mind would tell both of those wenches to stay away from him. In Rand's case, he could've done it gently, but he still should have done it.



Nynaeve and Lan are the best couple in the series now that Lan has gotten past his psychoses about dying. I've seen people complaining that Lan was cold toward Moiraine, but it's completely understandable why he feels that way...and it's about bloody time! I agree that Min is the best choice out of Rand's women, but she really annoyed me in aMoL, for some reason.

The fact that RJ thought all "strong" women were supposed to be unbearable bitches who were incapable of showing the slightest amount of kindness to men, even the men they claim to love, is disturbing, to say the least. Someone must've stomped that poor man down until he began to like it and think all men appreciated such treatment, especially since his idea of a "strong" man seemed to be a man who took every ounce of abuse a woman doled out with no more than a few complaints about how "stubborn" the woman is.

The one thing I will give Faile is that she never wanted Perrin to be a wuss with her. She wanted him to stand up to her when he thought he should, and despite her stupidity in many situations, she wanted an equal relationship with Perrin. Perrin is just too passive by nature to do anything but bend over when she gets pushy, as opposed to Lan, who had no problems standing up to Nynaeve.