>>90340095Look, anon. You just don't get it.
A man said something a woman did not care to hear. What was she supposed to do, shrug off his nonsense as the pitiful ramblings of a beaten foe, one who was desperately trying to have some measure of power despite being foiled and humiliated?
That's just crazy talk! No, you have to slap him around to prove that you're in charge and his words don't mean anything.
I remember a scene from Girl Genius, where Gilgamesh Wulfenbach is showing Agatha his book collection, including the many stories of the Heterodyne Boys. His father, Baron Klaus Wulfenbach went adventuring with the Boys. However, in the stories he's always portrayed as a bumbling, oafish sidekick. Agatha wonders how these books can exist. Gilgamesh tells her that his father has never done anything about them. Because - and here's the rub - he doesn't care about what a bunch of dime store authors have to say about him, and because if he did try to suppress the books' publication, people would wonder if there was something to his fictional portrayal and he was trying to cover it up.
By lashing out, the women in this scene prove that that their captive can still hurt them. They think what he says matters to them and the only way they have to shut him up is by beating him.
