Bitching about Medieval Literature

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In this episode, two men decide not to demand sex from women they have power over, and are inexplicably praised for it. I get VERY bitchy about all this. In 10.4, a man goes to steal a kiss from the corpse of a woman who didn't requite his love, and discovers she is alive. In 10.5, a woman says she will sleep with a man if he does something impossible for her, and he actually manages it. 


CONTENT WARNINGS: Fortunately, not actual rape. However...

In 10.4, intended kissing and groping of a corpse. Keeping a woman away from her family and letting her family think she's dead, for months. Implied threat to not let her go back to her husband, once her husband DOES know.

In 10.5, a man completes the impossible task the protagonist set as a condition before she would have sex with him. He was aware this was meant to be a soft no. When the woman tells her husband, he instructs her to go and sleep with the guy. She goes to his house expecting that he will, and clearly unwilling.

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Bitching about Medieval LiteratureBy Gwen verch David

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