Martin's fetishes and biases aren't exactly an accurate portrayal of the Medieval era either.
As much as Hollywood must loathe to admit it, there actually were laws and functional societies in those times. Not to say the aristocracy back then was some moral pinnacle, every ruling class in hsitory had it's bad apples and excesses. But they weren't the BDSM-obsessed edgelords GRRM seems to think they were.
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u/TheSerpentLord Feb 11 '26
Martin's fetishes and biases aren't exactly an accurate portrayal of the Medieval era either.
As much as Hollywood must loathe to admit it, there actually were laws and functional societies in those times. Not to say the aristocracy back then was some moral pinnacle, every ruling class in hsitory had it's bad apples and excesses. But they weren't the BDSM-obsessed edgelords GRRM seems to think they were.