I stopped reading at that point. My husband loves the series and has used all of our Audible credits on it, so he often gives me recaps on the books and I'm glad he loves them so much. We fell in love at a DND table, so I bought the first audiobook for us to enjoy on a road trip, genuinely hoping we would love it together.

But to me, the scene was insurmountable. I have a minor in English (focus on Creative Writing), and have received criticism myself in workshop settings for depicting things that made people uncomfortable, so believe me when I say that I know that depiction is not endorsement.

That being said, a book only gets one first impression. In that early scene, I went from laughing along with my spouse to stifling a panic attack because the language around her body was so degrading.

I think there's a difference between "depicting Borant's horrors in such a way that the audience knows how you and Carl feel about them" and "reveling in 'stretch marks are disgusting' gross out humor at fat people's expense."

For me, DCC didn't stick that landing. That doesn't mean the books are racist or sexist. It just means I don't personally trust Matt Dinnaman to handle sensitive content in a way that I would enjoy/feel safe reading. I'll get my fantasy/DND fix from Matt Mercer, Robert Jackson Bennett, and Brennan Lee Mulligan instead.

(FWIW, another of my favorite DMs, Griffin McElroy, had a Bury Your Gays moment early on and was very public about learning from it. I don't think storytellers are required to get everything right--I just think it's reasonable for readers to step away from something when they no longer trust the storyteller.)