(urth) Short Story 64: When I was Ming the Merciless

[Tony Ellis]

Marc Aramini wrote
>"Some of the men said that
>they really liked it, underneath, but I don’t think so.”

>This dominant, conquering, raping “impulse” is given flesh, and the
>implication is that the leader, with all his self-justification, still
>implies that no one really likes it, but it happens of itself.

I suppose you could read it either way, but I think when the narrator
says "Some of the men said that they really liked it," 'they' refers
to the women, as it does in the previous sentence. The men were
trotting out the old bullshit excuse that their victims wanted to be
raped.