moonglowbilquis:

The thing that makes a lot of male authors unacceptable to me is that they’ll construct all sorts of fantasy worlds, such as in GRRM’s case, a world with sorcerers and witches and dragons and ice zombies and blood magic, and yet they have to include rampant, consistent, horrific, excessive sexual violence toward and objectification of women for some kind of “social commentary”. You could do a brilliant commentary on patriarchy without explicit scenes of rape or sexualization - female authors manage to do so all the time, funnily enough. We have to realize at some point that male authors have a macabre and voyeuristic obsession with women being subjected to violence of all kinds.