Nyrapilled Catelyncel

You really got down to the core of what bothers me with how the fandom discusses this topic. Instead of what's actually happening, which is this behaviour being normalized in their society it's treated like an individual's predatory behaviour/sexual perversion when the former is just so much more fucked up.

i hate “pedophilia” in almost all cases it’s used in but it’s especially frustrating to me here because the culturally normative eroticization of young women is not an individual pathology but a master key to westerosi society’s particular system of gendered subjugation. men are really into pubescent virgin girls because of a social system where the total control of women’s reproductive capacity and thus sexuality by men, fathers and then husbands, is the foundation of the ordering hierarchy of a society obsessed with passing on property and power through the male line. young girls are idealized erotic objects because they are “untouched” by other men and easier to achieve various forms of emotional mastery over to make easier the social mastery that is integral to uncontested patriarchal succession by blood; the social mastery makes emotional mastery inevitable; that social and emotional mastery means that young women are available to be used sexually by men without regards for their own wishes or agency or sexual fulfillment. its feminism 101 shit and frameworks like “pedophilia” discard it to make it about individual creeps. it’s frustrating in modern contexts too; the secret to csa is largely not the aberrant desire for children but that the domination of children by adults is still a structuring hierarchy of society and that this is processed erotically and the subordination of children is both used by people for unethical sexual satisfaction and that sexual violence is used to further subordinate children.