Thank you for replying to this. I was thinking of asking your opinion - because you've read further than I have.
Outside of the Dothraki "rape!yay" mindset - I really haven't seen anything.
I suppose you could use Lolly being "gang-raped" as an example? But, that is referred to mainly in passing, blink and you sort of miss it. We never see it happen, Lolly isn't a major pov character, and the women who mention it don't like her. If anything it appears to be there just to remind us of the time period and the periles of being female. But it's no different than me picking up the newspaper this morning and reading more or less the same story.
Cersei definitely hasn't been raped (unless you consider her entire marriage to Robert to have been so... which I suppose you could make an argument for, but it was too much a part of the (Earth) time period to fall easily into any neat category.)
Well, if he does, she doesn't appear to see it that way. If anything I felt she was annoyed that he was more interested in someone else than her.
I suppose...Brienne? But she's never raped. She has the threat of rape, but that's realistic. That would be the case now. And it's not glamorized. Nor does it even happen.
There's no exploitive rape in these books. Nor even much rape for that matter. There's hardly any sex, actually. Lots of decapitations, lynchings, burnings, removal of body parts, and gruesome deaths...but not really that much in the sexual violence or sex department. Which is a bit odd due to the time period and the circumstances.
Which begs the question - did the people on Tiger Beat even read the books? And if so, what are they comparing them too? Bewildering.
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Outside of the Dothraki "rape!yay" mindset - I really haven't seen anything.
I suppose you could use Lolly being "gang-raped" as an example? But, that is referred to mainly in passing, blink and you sort of miss it. We never see it happen, Lolly isn't a major pov character, and the women who mention it don't like her. If anything it appears to be there just to remind us of the time period and the periles of being female. But it's no different than me picking up the newspaper this morning and reading more or less the same story.
Cersei definitely hasn't been raped (unless you consider her entire marriage to Robert to have been so... which I suppose you could make an argument for, but it was too much a part of the (Earth) time period to fall easily into any neat category.)
Well, if he does, she doesn't appear to see it that way. If anything I felt she was annoyed that he was more interested in someone else than her.
I suppose...Brienne? But she's never raped. She has the threat of rape, but that's realistic. That would be the case now. And it's not glamorized. Nor does it even happen.
There's no exploitive rape in these books. Nor even much rape for that matter.
There's hardly any sex, actually. Lots of decapitations, lynchings, burnings, removal of body parts, and gruesome deaths...but not really that much in the sexual violence or sex department. Which is a bit odd due to the time period and the circumstances.
Which begs the question - did the people on Tiger Beat even read the books? And if so, what are they comparing them too? Bewildering.