OK, so David Eddings is not my FAVORITE author. He's my favorite author for infecting a certain type of kid with a love of fiction, if that makes sense.

Anyway, in his first series, he has a scene where a queen (who has just been asked to raise an army from tired farmers and dust) commissions her planned, "fancy, talk-to-the-peasants" armor, which includes boob-cups. The blacksmith points out that it's useless and will direct all strikes to her solar plexus. She replies that she's a 4'Whatever" figurehead and will never see fighting, she's a combination of admin+PR person.

Anyway, thought it was a fun moment. The series does err towards assuming the reader's male, but if you look at the publication dates it's progressive for the time.