game of thrones

[seabeyond]

As you may know, during Sunday’s episode, Jamie raped Cersei (Assuming you can call sex in which a woman keeps saying “no” rape. Hint: Yes, you fucking can.) on a show that already had plenty of sexual violence. Even more disturbing, the original scene in the book was one of consensual sex. So it was changed to rape on the show for… What? Entertainment value? Entertaining for whom? Director Alex Graves tried to get everyone settled down about the scene by saying that, yes, the scene starts as a rape, but then the sex “becomes consensual.” All the women that I’ve read on this have been very measured in their responses, so I’m going to let them take that high road and go ahead and address Graves in a somewhat less measured way.

THAT MAKES IT WORSE, YOU ASSHOLE.

No, rape does not “become consensual,” and suggesting that it does is what we call “perpetuating rape culture,” because IT IS LOGIC THAT RAPISTS ACTUALLY USE.


Well, at least no impressionable teenagers watch Game of Thrones. OH, WAIT. THEY TOTALLY FUCKING DO. And thanks for making a fan-favorite character into a rapist, co-writers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. Thanks for making it just a little easier for people to write off a woman’s “grey rape” or whatever dickbags are calling it nowadays, and for making it just a little harder to prevent and prosecute. This is why you risked everything to get into entertainment, was it? To make the world a little more violent and rape a little harder to report and prosecute? Well. Fucking. Done. I’m sure your starry-eyed younger selves are very proud. Don’t let them actually watch the show, OK?

http://www.afterellen.com/feminist-friday-shame-of-thrones/04/2014/