[ SECRET POST #6457 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6457 ⌋

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


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Comments

Re: Question for OP...

[(Anonymous)]

DA There is a lot of poetic license taken, but mostly he's just interested in the wars and the lords, without much understanding of agriculture, economic factors, and gender roles outside the nobles. So it's not so much outright wrong as shaky because it's very shallow.

Re: Question for OP...

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, this. And he has a tendency to muddle in attitudes from much more recent time periods, like Victorian ideas of racism, along withe renaissance and post-renaissance/early modern ideas of historicity (ie, how the maesters write the 'history' in fire and blood), and roll it all in together as ~the past~ and calls it a medieval-esque world. Also he has big gaps in terms of material culture - not paying attention to the difference between paper and parchment which is a HUGE difference if you have any even amateur interest in medieval scholarship, for example.

I'm not even a GRRM hater, I enjoy his work and I don't think he's obligated to be interested in those things, but he gets a lot of credit for """basing things on history""" and on it being the medieval period in particular, when it's really a much sloppier setting than that.

Re: Question for OP...

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, this too! A lot of medieval trappings without understanding why or how they work in an actual society. Which is fine, and works for his narrative, but a lot of his fans don't understand this either. And if you discuss this, you're likely to get a lot of butthurt "you just hate medieval women" or "you just think there was no racism in medieval times" which is not right either - it was different racism, and women had different roles to what he thinks they had.

Re: Question for OP...

[(Anonymous)]

Religion, too! He writes this fantasy Catholicism that the vast majority of a continent believes in, and yet there isn't a single man who's devout enough to keep his hands off unwilling women because he's afraid rape will send him to hell? (No, Baelor the Religious Fanatic doesn't count.) There are no sects of Seven-worship? Really, it's all homogeneous? BS.