- Moderator
- #41
I read Liandrin's touching of Moiraine's face and hair to be a power move, kind of the way you sometimes see between men in a corporate setting when the ladder-climber steps up to a rival and while talking to them also takes initiative to brush off their jacket or straighten their tie for them. Kind of a passive-aggressive move to establish superiority, whether it works or not.
Men do this to women as a power move too, and it's gross. This feels more like that, to me.