Sorka Hanrahan! And in all honesty, Sean wasn't that annoying about the pregnancy--at least not until she was near popping. Though he did make her marry him. (in fact, the novel itself was pretty awesome about pregnant women still doing their jobs and only stopping a little to have the kid, then moving on--it was just something one did, not a debilitating disease)

But Sean was just an autocratic jackass a lot of the time, and Sorka was so 'privileged' that he allowed himself to be angry in her presence. ARGH.

The male characters are the hardest parts of her novels. The rapeyness (which doesn't get dwelled on much) can be sort of ignored. But the men being douchenozzles and basically blaming everything on the women around them (despite treating those same women as children and not educating them or anything like that, OH MY RAGE when I realized that women weren't even taught to READ in Lessa's time)

I just keep telling myself they're a product of the time.