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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2024-08-09 07:17 pm

[ SECRET POST #6426 ]


⌈ Secret Post #6426 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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02. [SPOILERS for House of the Dragon season 2]




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03. [SPOILERS for The Boys season 4]




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04. [WARNING for discussion of sexual assault]




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05. [WARNING for discussion of medical abuse]




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06. [WARNING for discussion of underage sex]




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07. [WARNING for discussion of sexual assault]




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08. [WARNING for discussion of sexual assault/rape]
























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(Anonymous) 2024-08-10 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
Ayrt

It wouldn't have been called sexual assault because that term didn't, like, exist

That's not actually what I meant. There are quite a few things that fall under the sexual assault banner that aren't forcible rape that I doubt would be seen as really all that bad by the public at large at the time. Yes, forcible rape occurred at the time and it was considered bad, but there are a host of other things that would fall under the sexual assault banner that would not be recognized as something to shun someone for.

(Anonymous) 2024-08-10 01:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I think the difference there is exaggerated, honestly. Like what a certain man is currently being cancelled for would probably be called mostly "seduction" rather than "rape" but "seduction" was absolutely not ethically okay? Like princes could get away with it but it wasn't *good* and their dads would absolutely be paying people off to keep it quiet. If he was in a politically tricky spit with his nobles and it got out he'd been seducing virgins he'd be in big trouble (that's part of why he fell in the original!) Similarly you weren't going to jail for forcing the servant girls but you would get a whisper network and a bad reputation. And in the original there's TONS of random magic ready to call you out and curse you for being an unchaste knight.

Women had quite a bit of social power in the Dark Ages and it's not like they somehow liked it back then either.