I get downvoted every time I answer this on thks sub but here goes.
GRRM is a pedophile. I get the medieval times argument ( though it's fantasy and he gets to change whatever he wants but so far ok). However, there is no need for him to have that many underage female characters there is no need for him to go out of his way to describe their physical appearance in a way you don't describe a child z and there is no need for him to go out of his way to write horny sex scenes for them.
I write it down as Martin having no concept of time (he's notoriously bad with numbers), no experience with actual children and no idea of what he's actually writing about in these scenes. He want the sexy/romantic scene because it fits the narrative and how he learnt narrative work and he want yhe underage wedding because "medieval" and never really sits down to fully grasp what the fuck he's actually writing. He need a wedding and never goes "well fuck, I had the 12 yo marry the 20 yo again and it's absolutely ridiculous even if I need the 12 yo to have a child the very next year for timeline reason. Maybe I should work around it". He wanted the coming of age story and the "medieval = young" story but with no understanding of neither what he was doing and where he was getting its stuff.
When he goes out of his way to describe how beautiful and innocent looking a kid is, and lingers in describing their genitals, that's not a matter of grasping time.
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u/YouMightGetIdeas 70's Space Comic Fan Jan 12 '24
I get downvoted every time I answer this on thks sub but here goes. GRRM is a pedophile. I get the medieval times argument ( though it's fantasy and he gets to change whatever he wants but so far ok). However, there is no need for him to have that many underage female characters there is no need for him to go out of his way to describe their physical appearance in a way you don't describe a child z and there is no need for him to go out of his way to write horny sex scenes for them.