Medieval fantasy still need to be realistic in the setting, this includes misogyny, human life not having value, elites considering the plebs as being little more then animals, little to no repercussions and a totally different set of morals from what we are used to.
We've already pushed fantasy to be modern politics, modern diversity, woke moral values but with swords and magic. There is no point in making the setting medieval at that point.
There is very little misogyny in medieval settings, in the modern interpretation of it. Chivalry is a thing, after all. Women and men were valued on different bell curves, with a thinner but higher-median curve for women than men. So the top men, more valued than the top women, but the vast majority... Conscripts to play in war "games" that involve a 50%+ death rate for them AT BEST versus people who have intrinsic value by nature of their genitalia.
The moment you have a slaver raider torch a village and say "kill the men, they're worthless, but keep the women alive and unmarred" you're acknowledging a vast gap in valuation favoring women by even the worst and most villainous of your cast. Perhaps they do not appreciate that increased value, but it is a fact the one has value while the other has none.
I think the word you're looking for, in almost all your descriptors, is "misanthropy". Not liking humans in general.
EDIT: You could have a nice horrific scene in your medieval fiction where the proper feminist village informs the slaver that his actions of keeping the women alive are misogyny, and that the proper thing to do would be to treat them equally with the better treatment given to the men, and have the trained dogs rip her apart or cooked alive with boiling water poured down her throat, common methods used to kill younger men in village raids even in the modern era in Africa. Then her dying scream would be "this is such a better situation, thank you for the equality and raising my standard of living! Auuuurgh!"
What these woke scolds are actually doing is denying the validity of our own reality. If you believe that sexual violence is a consequence of an arbitrary constructed social order, then eliminating sexual violence is as simple as wiping the state clean and starting over with a new, more perfect social order.
If, however, sexual violence is inherent to the species, and an inevitable consequence of evolved social orders based on fixed biological realities, then transporting those same biological realities to a new fictional setting will generate similar consequences.
Medieval fantasy still need to be realistic in the setting
Game of Thrones isn't realistic. It plays up the ugliness and people think it's realistic because it aligns with their false notions of how ugly the past was.
Medieval fantasy still need to be realistic in the setting, this includes misogyny, human life not having value, elites considering the plebs as being little more then animals, little to no repercussions and a totally different set of morals from what we are used to. We've already pushed fantasy to be modern politics, modern diversity, woke moral values but with swords and magic. There is no point in making the setting medieval at that point.
There is very little misogyny in medieval settings, in the modern interpretation of it. Chivalry is a thing, after all. Women and men were valued on different bell curves, with a thinner but higher-median curve for women than men. So the top men, more valued than the top women, but the vast majority... Conscripts to play in war "games" that involve a 50%+ death rate for them AT BEST versus people who have intrinsic value by nature of their genitalia.
The moment you have a slaver raider torch a village and say "kill the men, they're worthless, but keep the women alive and unmarred" you're acknowledging a vast gap in valuation favoring women by even the worst and most villainous of your cast. Perhaps they do not appreciate that increased value, but it is a fact the one has value while the other has none.
I think the word you're looking for, in almost all your descriptors, is "misanthropy". Not liking humans in general.
EDIT: You could have a nice horrific scene in your medieval fiction where the proper feminist village informs the slaver that his actions of keeping the women alive are misogyny, and that the proper thing to do would be to treat them equally with the better treatment given to the men, and have the trained dogs rip her apart or cooked alive with boiling water poured down her throat, common methods used to kill younger men in village raids even in the modern era in Africa. Then her dying scream would be "this is such a better situation, thank you for the equality and raising my standard of living! Auuuurgh!"
What these woke scolds are actually doing is denying the validity of our own reality. If you believe that sexual violence is a consequence of an arbitrary constructed social order, then eliminating sexual violence is as simple as wiping the state clean and starting over with a new, more perfect social order.
If, however, sexual violence is inherent to the species, and an inevitable consequence of evolved social orders based on fixed biological realities, then transporting those same biological realities to a new fictional setting will generate similar consequences.
Game of Thrones isn't realistic. It plays up the ugliness and people think it's realistic because it aligns with their false notions of how ugly the past was.
Please stop using fake words.
Misogyny from their perspective.
Imp felt personally targeted
I don't care, stop using and normalizing their fake terms.