But, yes, I hated rape being used as a form of punishment by Shaidar Haran and the Dark One. It downplays the importance of the female Forsaken while simultaneously making the ultimate evil of the Shadow look completely brutish and petty.
Because it IS. And the (female or male) Forsaken are NOT important! The threat is the Dark One and Jordan and Sanderson have both gone out of their way to demonstrate that the Forsaken are petty, contemptible scum who are not worth the slightest bit of respect. There are more imaginative punishments that beings with these types of powers should be able to inflict.
The POINT of an Evil villain is that they are a waste and they do squander potential. Why go for imaginative punishments that fail to disturb the reader? If rape is the most disturbing, than why not use that punishment? What possible reason can you give for the evil characters to forgo utilizing it?So failures among the male Forsaken are punished with a slap on the wrist and ironic punishments while the females are raped and tortured?
Name ONE male Forsaken who has been punished since Shadar Haran showed up? There were basically four running around contemporaneously, and most of them died in battle before they could be punished, while Demandred and Moridin have, by all appearances, been successful. As I noted to the moronic original poster, the males more or less all DIE, so how can you claim that the women get it worse, especially when you consider that death is the thing Darkfriends sell their souls to avoid? What "slap on the wrist and ironic punishments" were dished out to males? No wonder Lanfear tried to get rid of the Dark One and made her own plans. It's the ultimate glass ceiling. But the entire WoT universe is preoccupied with arbitrary traits conferred by sex, and there is a lot of biological determinism involved, so when critically reading the series, it really seems gross and sophomoric.
Or when critically reading readers' commentary.
Cannoli
"Sometimes unhinged, sometimes unfair, always entertaining"
- The Crownless
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Deus Vult!
"Sometimes unhinged, sometimes unfair, always entertaining"
- The Crownless
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Deus Vult!
No offence! The most disgusting aspect of WoT
- 26/08/2011 02:12:46 PM
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Yes, I hate rape and I hate how it was used in this story.
- 26/08/2011 03:31:16 PM
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Missing the point...
- 26/08/2011 06:05:40 PM
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No, but maybe you are missing the point of what a good villain can do.
- 31/08/2011 05:48:47 PM
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The rapists are evil, and are presented as such in the books. Go soak your head.
- 26/08/2011 05:57:21 PM
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I think the argument that RJ is misogynistic because Rand has 3 GFs is more tenable.
- 26/08/2011 06:47:26 PM
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I think giving his hero 3 GFs more likely proves that RJ is a misandrist
- 26/08/2011 09:14:17 PM
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*NM*
Jordan was going to call the series "The Wheel of Rape" until Tor axed the idea. *NM*
- 31/08/2011 02:19:25 AM
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I know and there are not any elves or fairies *NM*
- 01/09/2011 03:03:53 PM
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No Fairies? Because there are enough of us who are reading the series! 
*NM*
- 01/09/2011 05:02:52 PM
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*NM*
- 01/09/2011 05:02:52 PM
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