Yes. It's automatically assumed in fiction that any female who doesn't sit at home baking cookies will, at somepoint in time, face attempted rape. And sitting home and baking cookies isn't safe, either, because some enemy may want to give your boyfriend extra angst.
The few years after I started reading fantasy, most of my fantasy reading was from the school library, and I managed to avoid books like that at the bookstore somehow (though, as this was age 12-16~, I most likely missed some stuff in the books.) But then I started going to the public library and used bookstores and it ws in almost every book I read. Actually, I think I stopped reading it for about a year or so after that.
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Date: 2008-08-03 08:35 pm (UTC)Yes. It's automatically assumed in fiction that any female who doesn't sit at home baking cookies will, at somepoint in time, face attempted rape. And sitting home and baking cookies isn't safe, either, because some enemy may want to give your boyfriend extra angst.
The few years after I started reading fantasy, most of my fantasy reading was from the school library, and I managed to avoid books like that at the bookstore somehow (though, as this was age 12-16~, I most likely missed some stuff in the books.) But then I started going to the public library and used bookstores and it ws in almost every book I read. Actually, I think I stopped reading it for about a year or so after that.