Talk:Fencing Lessons/@comment-136.32.22.129-20180818075927/@comment-26587932-20190216064551

Jesus, the narrative doesn't hide that she was the victim here nor that Geralt shamed her for it, and yet that's still not enough to get some of you to recognize an act of victim shaming which suggests that victim shaming truly is an issue.

Geralt is the hero. The traits and morals of Heroes of non-contemporary stories are usually updated to be more relatable to the contemporary reader, even if the rest of the world maintains a backwards sense of morality. I get that there are plenty of horrible people that believe that women being raped is always their fault unless they are wearing 5 layers of clothes and are locked inside their rooms with a posted guard outside, but that's something I'm going to criticize of the story and those that find such behaviors relatable. It's not even our world so there's no reason that so called "American" values (I'm not even American) would not exist in their 13th century world.