I don't think I've ever come across a club whose suitability for me was so clear from its very title.
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed." Chesterton. Goblin Slayer spits in the face of this purpose; the goblins will never be wiped out, and rape trauma is not recovered from. What it tells us
Whereas Goblin Slayer tells us that strong women who transgress boundaries are going to be raped and not recover from it, unless they have the protection of a big strong male power fantasy that fulfils male wishes at the expense of female dignity. Rape is cheapened, normalised, exploited for titillation, and accepted in the world of GS. not shown as an unacceptable crime it is. Because the purpose of these 'heroes' is not to vanquish evil or make any sensible point, but to pander the lowest human drives with satisfyingly guiltless slaughter and gratuitous rape scenes. This series is trashy, edgelord, misogynist, shoddily constructed, execrable rubbish and without rape it could have been halfway decent.
I'm so opposed to this series that I've written some Shadowrun RPG fanfics where the Rookie party from ep1 are the lead characters, walking a long road to heroism in a cyberpunk urban fantasy;
https://archiveofourown.org/works/18028652/chapters/42598682
https://archiveofourown.org/works/17953271/chapters/42400187
And a series of other AUs starring the Rookies in various settings;
https://archiveofourown.org/works/17624270/chapters/41552936
AND a little comic poem simply bashing Goblin Slayer from start to finish
https://archiveofourown.org/works/18909979/chapters/44889349 |
