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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
Exactly this. In the book in question, one of the vocab/attitude red flags was the female lead talking about "sexual predators". Not a term that sounds very Victorian to me.
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And it happens constantly today. If you're reading a novel set in, say, 1810, the characters will look/speak/act as though they are in 2022. It's...frustrating. I don't mind the author "softening" what would be infuriating attitudes, for the reading audience, a bit or rather, tamping them down, but pretending that they don't exist? Nyah.
Hitch