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Warning, triggers So a friend floated a theory to me that Jasnah equates rape to seduction in the following passage that Shallon recalls Pg 228 WoR A quick google search found me no discussion on this and I think it pertains heavily hear. My first listen I simply took this to mean that seduction was the same as a man using strength to gain power, that it had no sexual connotations. When he pointed it out the word woman jumped out at me. This doesn't seem to mean fighting for power nor showing off a ripped body, but actually physically dominating a woman, whether for sex or just in a normal abusive way, like the abusive father who beats his wife to make her stay in the kitchen. I originally thought this meant she herself was sexually abused, but I'm beginning to back down from that. She just seems, well, too put together for that. While plenty of rape and child abuse survivors are well put together, I feel like if she were that damaged it would make sense to show it more. Instead I'm more leaning towards the idea that she witnessed a man abusing a woman, probably her father beating her mother, maybe when he finds out she loved Dalinar. It would still cause her to be withdrawn and distrustful of men, however it wouldn't be such a huge betrayal that she wouldn't love and want to protect her father.