Would it be cynical and/or offensive if I said that I've come to suspect "a love of [rape-filled] Grimdark" and "someone's fetish" are one and the same?
I don't know. It just seems like rape-filled Grimdark is an excuse for at least one of two things: 1) Lots of horrific rape of women and girls (EXCLUSIVELY women and girls), either described in loving detail or hinted at in such a way that the implications are shadowed in loving detail; 2) A white heterosexual male protagonist (suspiciously resembling an authorial insert) riding in to whiteknight a raped or almost-raped victim-caricature and show what a marvelously chivalrous and/or feminist Nice Guy he is.
Perhaps it's just that I don't read much Grimdarkery, but it seems like that's the report that keeps leaking back from reviews of stories set in such universes...
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Date: 2013-08-30 05:46 am (UTC)I don't know. It just seems like rape-filled Grimdark is an excuse for at least one of two things:
1) Lots of horrific rape of women and girls (EXCLUSIVELY women and girls), either described in loving detail or hinted at in such a way that the implications are shadowed in loving detail;
2) A white heterosexual male protagonist (suspiciously resembling an authorial insert) riding in to whiteknight a raped or almost-raped victim-caricature and show what a marvelously chivalrous and/or feminist Nice Guy he is.
Perhaps it's just that I don't read much Grimdarkery, but it seems like that's the report that keeps leaking back from reviews of stories set in such universes...