Manowar of course are working within an earlier instantiation of the fantasy genre where this view of rape as a spoil of war is common.Manowar wrote: Rip their flesh, burn their hearts
Stab them in the eyes
Rape their women as they cry
(laughter)
Kill their servants, burn their homes
Till there's no blood left to spill
Hail and kill
Power and dominion are taken by the will
By divine right, hail and kill
Indeed, no! As we see again and again, to equivocate rape with other forms of violence is completely off the table.Lancelot wrote: Couldn't do that in le current year!
It's a special type of violence (a violence, you may have been told, entirely unrelated to sex) which is different to and more important than all the others.
What are some of your favorite examples of rape in media?
Can you think of any times where there were entertaining responses?