I forgot to ask - having now read the original canon, have your feelings regarding the world's most famous fanfiction, i.e. the Aeneid, changed or remained the same?
Treatment of women who either collaborated or just had sex or romance with Germans (not the same thing by necessity) vs treatment of male collaborators: it really was strikingly different, and not just in cases where, say, the woman really did something awful like denouncing her Jewish neighbours or work as a secretary for the local Gestapo, but also in cases where all that happened was sex, and/or some German soldier providing better rations for the woman in question. Even leaving aside the questionable consent question in wartime with occupies (as with the slaves and the suitors), it seems to be an atavistic thing through the millennia that the "our woman are having sex with them" part is seen so much more unforgivable than what the male collaborators did, and there is a trace of that as far back as the treatment of the female slaves in the Odyssey and its not being questioned until the late 20th century by readers.
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Treatment of women who either collaborated or just had sex or romance with Germans (not the same thing by necessity) vs treatment of male collaborators: it really was strikingly different, and not just in cases where, say, the woman really did something awful like denouncing her Jewish neighbours or work as a secretary for the local Gestapo, but also in cases where all that happened was sex, and/or some German soldier providing better rations for the woman in question. Even leaving aside the questionable consent question in wartime with occupies (as with the slaves and the suitors), it seems to be an atavistic thing through the millennia that the "our woman are having sex with them" part is seen so much more unforgivable than what the male collaborators did, and there is a trace of that as far back as the treatment of the female slaves in the Odyssey and its not being questioned until the late 20th century by readers.