Exhibit A: George R.R. Martin's books, which have a whole lotta sexual violence directed at women, but strangely the Night's Watch (which is exactly the kind of social milieu that tends to produce sexual violence between men) seems to be a rape-free zone . . .
I managed to track down the quote, though the link to its source is dead because that got lost in the transfer from my old Livejournal to the Wordpress version of my blog:
“RJ wrote the Mat/Tylin scenario as a humorous role-reversal thing. His editor, and wife, thought it was a good discussion...
What troubles me in the case of Mat is . . . I don't have the quote to hand, and I think I got it secondhand in the first place, but it was something from either Jordan or Harriet to the effect of, the Mat/Tylin plotline was intended to be a humorous story about sexual assault. And, uh, that's a...