#hopefully this is just awkwardly phrased rather than genuinely accusatory but either way

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Do you think that Griffith forcing Casca to sleep with Guts is not morally reprehensible?

lol this feels like pretty bait-y phrasing, but I wanna give you the benefit of the doubt and I don't mind sharing my opinions on this, so I'll bite.

How are we defining morally reprehensible in the context of Berserk as a whole? Because sure, it's not great of him, it's misogynist and Casca was right to yell at him for it. But it doesn't exactly make the list of top 10 bad things characters do in Berserk, or even the top 100 lbr here lol.

Someone had to strip down and warm Guts up if he was going to live, according to the logic of the story (idgaf if it's medically accurate, I care about the story's own internal logic), and Griffith couldn't do it himself without a) risking the respect of his followers and imo b) confronting his own internalized homophobia lol. So he had to order one of the Hawks to do it. Casca draws the short straw because of the misogyny of society and Griffith's own misogyny as an imperfect part of that society, but it's hardly malicious.

And it's not solely a reflection on Griffith because no one else in the Band thinks it's wrong, everyone else seems to see it as a logical choice. Therefore, narratively it's less of a statement on Griffith and more of a statement on Casca's frustration with misogyny in general, from Griffith here, but from other people other times - like eg Guts when he berates her after rescuing her - and from society overall.

Plus arguably, upon re-reading the scene, it's actually more of a reflection on Casca's contentious relationship to womanhood than misogyny, because Judeau implies that Casca is pissed off about the reminder that she's a woman, rather than because it's wrong to suggest that warming a man is a woman's duty. "Our Casca gave up being a woman so she could be a mercenary long ago." Which itself, unfortunately, fits with Casca showing "a softer side" and becoming more feminine after the naked warming round 2 in chapter 15, as she starts falling for Guts.

I prefer to take it as a statement on misogyny rather than a symptom of Miura's own misogyny because I think that aspect of Casca's character "development" sucks lol, but that's not necessarily the intent. So yeah hopefully it's meant to be seen as a shitty thing for Griffith to do, rather than the natural place for Casca as a woman, but I can't say I'm 100% sure on that.

Basically I wouldn't call it morally reprehensible, I'd call it shitty but understandable in context and a decent introduction to Casca and her frustrations, as well as potentially some of the other themes of the story, but also potentially reflective of Miura's own misogyny rather than a self-aware statement on Griffith or Berserk's society, depending on how you interpret Casca's character development and Judeau's description of Casca in chapter 13.