i saw a post the other day which was like 'its bad faith to criticise rwrbs politics' bc it's 'part of the fantasy' blah blah blah and it annoyed me bc... no, it's not? ftr im not judging anyone who liked this book, i also liked it for the most part, but it's politics are. bad. it's not like it uses fantasy states with fantasy governments. it plucks two imperialist institutions with all their evil, bloody histories and goes, well, if a woc was in charge, everything would be better :)

call me a joyless communist or w/e but you can't do that and call it 'part of the fantasy'!! you cannot ignore centuries worth of atrocities for the sake of a silly little romance novel and say people shouldn't bring it up or that they're being unfair! this is a perfectly reasonable criticism!!!