RichardKennaway comments on Interlude with the Confessor (4/8) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 16 March 2015 11:24:06AM 2 points [-]

Weirdtopia? No -- history. For example, the Bible rules allowed for capturing the enemy's women as loot, having sex with their slave, and I'm fairly certain that a woman's wishes in terms of consent mattered a lot less than those of the male in charge of her.

Mattered a lot less, to whom? To the men. I'm sure they mattered a great deal to the women. That is where the story is performing weirdtopia. In the story, nonconsensual sex is taken lightly by everyone involved: not only the doers but the done to.