![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s also long had issues with women in positions of power, needing to delegitimize their authority by implying narcissistic or hereditary madness (women just can’t handle power, you see) as evidenced by Cersei’s fiddling while the Sept burned or Dany’s going dragon-nuclear on the King’s Landing (don’t feel bad for them, the “smallfolk” cheered when Ned Stark died). For this last, take your pick: Daenerys raped on her wedding night, sex worker Ros tortured to death by baby tyrant Joffrey, Cersei raped by her brother over their son’s corpse, Sansa raped and tortured by husband Roose Bolton, a pregnant women stabbed repeatedly in the womb- few of these were in the books, btw. ![]() Game of Thrones has always had a woman problem: naked women used as set dressing, “ sexposition” (the exposition of important plot points with sex acts in the background), the humiliation of women, scripting woman characters to thank their years of rape and abuse for making them “strong,” and gratuitous rape of and violence against women. Friends, Romans, Countrymen, I want to talk about domestic violence and Game of Thrones. ![]()
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