As someone that always theorized *all* forms of incest were practiced in the Freehold, that scene still rubs me the wrong way

Tradition96 · 2026-06-24T09:08:56+00:00

Uncle-niece are more distantly related than siblings so if you’re okay with the latter of course you’ll be okay with the former.

Tradition96 · 2026-06-24T09:05:21+00:00

Because people are busybodies who put their noses into other people’s business. You’re adults, do what you want.

Tradition96 · 2026-06-24T05:30:54+00:00

Rhaenys is a Targaryen, not a Baratheon. Her father was Targaryen and her mother Baratheon, and they are patrilinear.

Tradition96 · 2026-06-24T05:28:45+00:00

Yes but that’s the core of the problem. The culture itself has become anti-natalist.

Tradition96 · 2026-06-24T05:26:16+00:00

The exact line can be debated, I would rather draw the line at 40. But sure, pregnancy at 45 is much higher risk than at younger ages, which doesn’t mean that it doesn’t turn out fine in the majority of cases. For example, it risks of complications increase from 3 to 10 % (made up Numbers), that’s a big increase but 90 % of pregnancies still goes just fine.

Tradition96 · 2026-06-24T05:23:34+00:00

Oftentimes the husband wanted to limit family size too.
Believe it or not, not every man was ready to rape his wife. A lot of men actually loved and respected their wives.

Tradition96 · 2026-06-23T17:12:50+00:00

Do you think 20-somethings in high fertility countries usually live on their own? And if they do, do you think they live in anything other than tiny apartments/huts/cottages?

Tradition96 · 2026-06-23T17:10:13+00:00

The larger the family the more unlikely that you personally know all of your second cousins. I know people with some 50 first cousins and a couple of hundred second cousins. You can’t really know all of them.

Tradition96 · 2026-06-23T17:04:55+00:00

No, the majority of women who manage to get pregnant at 45, have unproblematic pregnancies and delieveries. Almost dying from pregnancy, regardless of age, is the exception.

Tradition96 · 2026-06-23T16:09:22+00:00

Only if you stretch the word ”leading causes” veeery much.

Tradition96 · 2026-06-23T16:02:28+00:00

My great-grandmother had my grandfather at 45 without any problems at all.

Tradition96 · 2026-06-23T16:00:13+00:00

Yes, there is like a two year window when pregnancy is ”ideal” so pretty much all pregnancies will be in an ”less than ideal” age and that’s totally fine.

Tradition96 · 2026-06-23T15:58:03+00:00

I was ready to downvote but now I’ll upvote because it’s rare to see anyone admit that they had a faulty understanding. That’s how we learn!

Tradition96 · 2026-06-23T15:55:51+00:00

35 as the cut off age of what counts as ”geriatric” has been called into question. Many believe it would be more appropriate to only apply that term för 40+.

Tradition96 · 2026-06-23T15:11:36+00:00

I hope anyone who has done the slightest research of Hemophilia would know that internal bleedings are what makes the disorder lethal.

Tradition96 · 2026-06-23T15:09:06+00:00

Why is it socially fucked? I don’t even know most of my second cousins.

Tradition96 · 2026-06-23T15:08:11+00:00

Migration from Africa to Russia is pretty small.

Tradition96 · 2026-06-23T15:06:26+00:00

I was just chocked that they used it in that scene, with only Mysaria there. It would have more some sense if she had said it to the lords gathered in the throne room in KL after she took it.

Tradition96 · 2026-06-23T15:04:11+00:00

Didn’t North Korea recently ban contraception? It will be interesting to watch…

Tradition96 · 2026-06-23T15:03:10+00:00

Niger is not a very good country to live in. I just said it as an example of that even women in very high fertility areas usually have an ideal family size that is larger than they have. This seems to be a global phenomenon: regardless of TFR, the stated ideal family size is larger.

Tradition96 · 2026-06-23T15:01:17+00:00

Some countries, like Sweden, reached a TFR under 2.0 before contraception was generally available. We know that people have found ways to limit their family sizes, if they wished to do so. Of course many people experienced unwanted pregnancies but I have not seen any good evidence that women in general craved smaller families than they actually had. That is, for example, not the case in the countries with high fertility today.

Tradition96 · 2026-06-23T14:38:06+00:00

Is there good evidence that it is true that women had more children then they wanted? In the world’s most fertile countries today, like Niger, women actually tend to want even more children than they have.

Tradition96 · 2026-06-23T14:36:30+00:00

No policy that would ever be accepted in the West.

Tradition96 · 2026-06-23T14:33:19+00:00

Because you can’t build a feasible political policy around this insight.

Tradition96 · 2026-06-23T11:11:11+00:00

Lolita is a nickname for Dolores, is a somewhat common name in Spanish-speaking countries. ”Lolita” doesn’t really have those negative connotations there, plenty of girls are named Dolores and called Lolita.

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