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"their king is not chosen for his courage, but for his proximity of blood to the defeated. of course it is a weak kingdom if rulership passes between a womans legs"

there are a million reasons why hereditary succession is fallible.
but this is outright bullshit.

now, i don't need to read medieval fiction if i can't handle this, but i'm not going to be able to ignore it completely either.