As I've been trying to explain on Twitter, GRRM should stop dragging in the Wars of the Roses. Because women (specifically royal women) were the key to vast tracts of land and hence warriors, a rape would be seen as a property attack and would therefore be dealt with accordingly. His "rape happens in war" line is remarkably thin when (I understand by osmosis) his rapes happen among the royal houses and power players. So imposing his rapes on his fantasy equivalents of Margaret of Anjou, Cecily the Rose of Raby, Elizabeth Woodville (who reputedly pulled a knife out when Edward IV tried something less than consensual and told him she didn't care which of their throats she used it on, but she'd stop him one way or the other), Anne Neville, Isabel Neville, and all the others when there's not a shred of evidence any of them ever where raped may be something, but historical accuracy it ain't.
Dear God, if he wants a lesson in how to use rape in grimdark, he should read Stephanie Plowman's To Spare The Conquered (a Peacock, which was an early sixties/seventies Penguin imprint for what is now known as YA). It's about what happened when the Romans thought raping Boudicca and her daughters was a really cunning plan. And you know what? When they dig sewers and suchlike near Long Wall and the Barbican they're still digging up the Roman heads.
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Date: 2014-05-06 08:02 pm (UTC)Dear God, if he wants a lesson in how to use rape in grimdark, he should read Stephanie Plowman's To Spare The Conquered (a Peacock, which was an early sixties/seventies Penguin imprint for what is now known as YA). It's about what happened when the Romans thought raping Boudicca and her daughters was a really cunning plan. And you know what? When they dig sewers and suchlike near Long Wall and the Barbican they're still digging up the Roman heads.