 Also often criticized is the Boom's emphasis on masculinity, both in the fact that all of the movement's representatives were male and the treatment of female characters within the novels.The Boom fiction's emphasis on history and the fantastic has also been the subject of criticism as it was claimed that it is too removed from the realities of Latin American political situations that it criticized.Authors such as Severo Sarduy have critiqued the tropes (e.g., phallogocentric discourse) that supported much of the literary movement’s legitimacy.