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should be a MOTHER FIGURE to him!!!! She WAS and IS and granted, she SAID it, but still. Wintrow suddenly gaining feelings for her. Why? Does Robin Hobb have an odd child fetish bc she did the same exact thing with Malta and it still irks me nearly 1,000 pages later.
Of course, back then, such things were more common, but that doesn’t make them right. They should NOT have been happening, and lets not prop them up more????? Ugh.
Like ew. It just makes me angry. Not every god damn relationship has to be sexual or romantic. Can familial love mot exist? How many times has Malta almost been raped, how many times has Althea???? TWO and nearly more. I’m just sick of this book. It’s very disturbing and disgusting and needlessly vulgar. I understand the story has a track to follow, but you do not have to choose to write those things. They are completely unnecessary because of how often she just throws it in like fucking seasoning.
Yes, it’s disgusting and realistic. But it also, at times, serves no damn plot point other than to show how disgusting men can be. Which, we know that, babes. I’m sick of women being treated like chattel. There’s a fine line, a respectful and caring like you can walk when writing about subjects like that. I think Hobb crosses a lone when she attempts to make it as realistic as possible. It’s very triggering and there is very little recompense, after the moment is gone. Very little rebuke, or visible showing? I’m not sure how to describe it at this moment, that what happened is abominable and wrong. She just makes the characters cry and despair, and the end. Until next time. (Literally). It sickens me. And I refuse to have and let that kind of culture run rampant in the fantasy genre. It’s not okay, and I just. Ugh.
People disgust me sometimes.