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⌈ Secret Post #2046 ⌋

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Comments

[rtydmartel]

What bothers me about the "historical accuracy" argument is that it kind of falls apart as an excuse for sexual abuse, misogyny, etc. when you stop and think that it was the author who choose to write something in that time of history to begin with, and no one forced him to be "accurate to history".

Really, who would really hold it against him if he didn't include all the horrors of those times on Earth on a fictional, fantasy universe?

Who could tell him: "fuck you man, I want to see some underage girls raped, why didn't you include that?!" and not look like an asshole in the process?

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you so much.

[(Anonymous)]

I've seen people say that the nomadic, wilderness-dwelling and other tribe portrayals are not racist just ~historically accurate~.

No no no and no.

[darkmanifest]

Fucking exactly.

[insanenoodlyguy]

I WOULD.

IT WOULDN'T BE DARK AND DEEP ENOUGH! STOP TRYING TO RUIN MY SM-ERR, TIME PIECE APPROPRIATE LITERATURE.

But really, at the same time, why shouldn't he write it the way he wants? Historical accuracy isn't the best word, but i would say that it's relatively plausible for such a world to have such shitty things.

[rtydmartel]

IT'S OKAY LET'S JUST THROW IN SOME MORE DEATH AND VIOLENCE AND IT WILL ALL BALANCE OUT.

More seriously speaking, I was struggling to put this into coherent sentences, so I'll copy-paste part of the comment that an anon posted below:

"The problem is that GRRM sexualizes his young, female characters in an exploitative and male-gazey way. See the Amazon link that's going around for a quick, condensed look at how often he writes about Dany and Sansa's budding, sweating, swollen, small breasts. He doesn't write about his male characters that way. He doesn't talk about Robb walking around with his growing, budding cock swinging gently between his young thighs. He only sexualizes the male characters in sexual situations. The point is that GRRM is making female sexuality all about grown men perving on them-- budding female sexuality that belongs to and is on display for men, not something that is part of the characters."

/end copy-pasting

If it was an equal-opportunity kind of thing, not from the point of view of the story and setting, mind, but from the point of view of the focus of the narrative, and so, of the author, I would feel, well, uncomfortable, because it would be dark subject matter I'm reading about, but not annoyed or angry about the creepy sexist and ephebophilic vibes coming from the author.

Like, if the setting is sexist and and dreadful and has rape and other such terrible things, okay, I could accept it as being a part of that world, but having the author sound like he's getting off on it is what takes me out of the story and reminds me that I'm reading the words of a man who totally imagined all these scenes and then wrote them down with loving attention to the bodies of the women and young girls in a way that is very skeevy.

In the interest of disclosure, I have only read passages of the books, not the books themselves. Every time I want to give them a chance (because author creepiness aside, they sound like something I might enjoy reading), I find out something even worse about them and the author himself that puts me off.