Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Particle_Man" data-source="post: 3654180" data-attributes="member: 892">Let's think about how many fantasy readers have ever been tortured or known someone that has been tortured.&nbsp; A small number, I bet.&nbsp; Let's look at how many fantasy readers have ever been raped or known someone that has been raped.&nbsp; A larger number, I bet.&nbsp; IIRC, 1 in 4 women in North America have been sexually assaulted.&nbsp; If that statistic is wrong, it is still true that rapes greatly outnumber tortures among the fantasy reader population.Thus I find your comparison spurious, unless you personally have been tortured.Regardless of context, the mere fact that the protagonist (the main &quot;viewpoint character&quot;, no less) rapes someone is, all by itself, worth the warning.&nbsp; Especially to someone that is expecting something like Lord of the Rings.&nbsp; And despite all the talk about all the books that deal with mature subject matter, somehow LotR turned out great without a single rape scene.&nbsp; If the OP wants to read the work anyhow, that is fine.&nbsp; But I don't regret giving the warning about this one, so at least he can go into it with his eyes open.&nbsp; It would be, IMHO, cruel to let him be blindsided if, for instance, he just found out that his sister had been raped and then he read the first book in the series and got surprised by the rape scene.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Particle_Man, post: 3654180, member: 892"] Let's think about how many fantasy readers have ever been tortured or known someone that has been tortured. A small number, I bet. Let's look at how many fantasy readers have ever been raped or known someone that has been raped. A larger number, I bet. IIRC, 1 in 4 women in North America have been sexually assaulted. If that statistic is wrong, it is still true that rapes greatly outnumber tortures among the fantasy reader population. Thus I find your comparison spurious, unless you personally have been tortured. Regardless of context, the mere fact that the protagonist (the main "viewpoint character", no less) rapes someone is, all by itself, worth the warning. Especially to someone that is expecting something like Lord of the Rings. And despite all the talk about all the books that deal with mature subject matter, somehow LotR turned out great without a single rape scene. If the OP wants to read the work anyhow, that is fine. But I don't regret giving the warning about this one, so at least he can go into it with his eyes open. It would be, IMHO, cruel to let him be blindsided if, for instance, he just found out that his sister had been raped and then he read the first book in the series and got surprised by the rape scene. [/QUOTE]

Verification