I’m much more pessimistic here.

Generally when the media treats a group of people as rapists, such as “black men defiling our white daughters” it’s usually a cover for a consensual phenomenon. You have to create violence against the men because keeping the women “safe” doesn’t help, since they’ll just escape and flee to their partners.

When the media treats a relationship as that of women being seduced, they’re probably being raped. When you undermine women’s victim narrative and blame them for their rape you make it impossible for them to get help from their partners and communities because everyone will just suspect them of being “seduced”. This way you force women to take steps to avoid or hide their rape, which solves the visible problem with minimal effort, again.

Vikings certainly bathed and groomed better than Englishmen, but when I see things like this I’m immediately suspicious of the intent of the writer.