if you repeatedly coerce your wife into performing her ‘marital duty’ (rape by any other name) then you need only manipulate your wife into believing that you are her saviour and eventually confess several “i love you”s to balance the scale. if you continually reduce your wife to a sex object and sociopolitical trophy (also an object) then you only need to feel several panel’s worth of self loathing and admit as much to the reader so random people can forgive 120 chapters worth of violent abusive dehumanisation on your wife’s behalf because they understand now that you were acting out of fear or trauma and so all the fear and trauma you have caused may all be excused. if you are such a self obsessed vitriolic misogynist that every woman in your vicinity is reduced to a trope, a concept — villainess then saint for erna, saint then devil for gladys - like you need to understand that a man like bjorn could have silenced the chatter if he cared to (like when he swiftly cut walter hardy out of erna’s life, like when he swiftly resolved the life threatening debt that was the whole premise of the story), i need you to understand that when you own a bank that the funds at your disposal is not called world building money for nothing. if he wanted to what stopped him from having her do old money reputation laundering level of charity? why not have her teach middle class women of her age group the making of artificial flowers to build an image? (from a publicity perspective it both helps make her a real person and not just a celebrity (a brand) and expand her social circle from only high society to wider public, it will also interest the working class because it has monetary value). why not have her go out to the streets with an entourage and hand out bread to the starving of which im sure there will be many if the wealth of the royal family is so extravagant that gifts are the only way he knows to express himself? why have her throw tea parties when she could have been throwing charity galas of which noblesse oblige will oblige attendance where she may have these young people her age display and even auction their artificial flowers instead? i need you to understand that he didn’t not because he couldn’t but because he didn’t care to. that he found her suffering to be a mandatory duty of which he bought her for (so he justifies her isolation and pain with the fact that at least hes not some old bastard). that the purpose of erna’s ritualistic humiliation and suffering is to ensure the wealth of the royal family. the purchase of lars bank, the maritime trade concessions, etc, are all for the sake of the royal family’s financial prosperity which is continually justified as a sacrifice that ensures the health of the nation but if women can’t own property nor inherit property and women can still be sold like cattle on the marriage market because they can’t own property then where does that wealth flow? if a society is so determined to sanctify and blaspheme living people equally, so hungry for punishment that even a teenage girl can be biblically condemned as a devil temptress but a man believed to have abandoned his wife and baby is only hehe haha poisonous mushroom then who benefits from the strengthening of a society structured to always punch down on the most vulnerable?
if you repeatedly coerce your wife into performing her ‘marital duty’ (rape by any other name) then you need only manipulate your wife into believing that you are her saviour and eventually confess several “i love you”s to balance the scale. if you continually reduce your wife to a sex object and sociopolitical trophy (also an object) then you only need to feel several panel’s worth of self loathing and admit as much to the reader so random people can forgive 120 chapters worth of violent abusive dehumanisation on your wife’s behalf because they understand now that you were acting out of fear or trauma and so all the fear and trauma you have caused may all be excused. if you are such a self obsessed vitriolic misogynist that every woman in your vicinity is reduced to a trope, a concept — villainess then saint for erna, saint then devil for gladys - like you need to understand that a man like bjorn could have silenced the chatter if he cared to (like when he swiftly cut walter hardy out of erna’s life, like when he swiftly resolved the life threatening debt that was the whole premise of the story), i need you to understand that when you own a bank that the funds at your disposal is not called world building money for nothing. if he wanted to what stopped him from having her do old money reputation laundering level of charity? why not have her teach middle class women of her age group the making of artificial flowers to build an image? (from a publicity perspective it both helps make her a real person and not just a celebrity (a brand) and expand her social circle from only high society to wider public, it will also interest the working class because it has monetary value). why not have her go out to the streets with an entourage and hand out bread to the starving of which im sure there will be many if the wealth of the royal family is so extravagant that gifts are the only way he knows to express himself? why have her throw tea parties when she could have been throwing charity galas of which noblesse oblige will oblige attendance where she may have these young people her age display and even auction their artificial flowers instead? i need you to understand that he didn’t not because he couldn’t but because he didn’t care to. that he found her suffering to be a mandatory duty of which he bought her for (so he justifies her isolation and pain with the fact that at least hes not some old bastard). that the purpose of erna’s ritualistic humiliation and suffering is to ensure the wealth of the royal family. the purchase of lars bank, the maritime trade concessions, etc, are all for the sake of the royal family’s financial prosperity which is continually justified as a sacrifice that ensures the health of the nation but if women can’t own property nor inherit property and women can still be sold like cattle on the marriage market because they can’t own property then where does that wealth flow? if a society is so determined to sanctify and blaspheme living people equally, so hungry for punishment that even a teenage girl can be biblically condemned as a devil temptress but a man believed to have abandoned his wife and baby is only hehe haha poisonous mushroom then who benefits from the strengthening of a society structured to always punch down on the most vulnerable?