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There is, of course, a dark side to this seemingly idealized fairy tale. Just as Courtly Love is the only genteel and "proper" form of romance short of marriage in nobility, the only outlet for carnal desires falls on the shoulders of those not subject to the respect of chivalry; the peasant class. Malory's writings contain candid accounts of Lancelot casually advising Galahad to rape a local village girl to mend his heart wounded from a failed courtship. This is the most benign examples of the consequences of unfulfilled lust stemmed from the stifling constraints of Courtly Love."
This paragraph runs me the wrong way. It uses the sexist argument that if men aren't given sex by their romantic interest then they "won't be able to control themselves" and have to have an "outlet" for "fulfilling their desires" i.e. raping women. Just because medieval literature has a few examples of this gross attitude, it doesn't mean that our article should be written in such a way that it implies that this is true.
" There is, of course, a dark side to this seemingly idealized fairy tale. Just as Courtly Love is the only genteel and "proper" form of romance short of marriage in nobility, the only outlet for carnal desires falls on the shoulders of those not subject to the respect of chivalry; the peasant class. Malory's writings contain candid accounts of Lancelot casually advising Galahad to rape a local village girl to mend his heart wounded from a failed courtship. This is the most benign examples of the consequences of unfulfilled lust stemmed from the stifling constraints of Courtly Love."
This paragraph runs me the wrong way. It uses the sexist argument that if men aren't given sex by their romantic interest then they "won't be able to control themselves" and have to have an "outlet" for "fulfilling their desires" i.e. raping women. Just because medieval literature has a few examples of this gross attitude, it doesn't mean that our article should be written in such a way that it implies that this is true.
Edited by A_Really_Big_Cat