game of thrones

[AuntPatsy]

4. I used the episode as a teaching took for my granddaughter.....

Though the show is obviously fictional, the reality of the times makes that particular crime non-fictional as well as standard form in how women's rights were less than those of a favored pet....

Considering the times we live in and the current events that are more than visible to the average citizen, women's rights are still on a tilting scale of ones personal beliefs...

I've read many many posts on DU recently where a few (that few being one too many) who believe the fear we women feel that our rights are always being attacked are nothing short of ridiculous.

Those few whom find humor in females fearful of our past horrors being visited once again in my opinion simply choose to ignore the facts in play even in today's world..

Back to the episode in question I talked with my granddaughter, asked how she felt that even in today's world , most view women, even other women that view themselves as less than their male counterparts....

For far too many minds back in the day as well as our present reality believe that we women are mostly here for the comfort of men, to not only take care of the children but to ensure the sexual desires of men will always come first....

So called pro lifers are nothing more than foolish followers of those that continue to desire a world where women know their rightful place in what is still in far too many ways a male dominated society...

I warned her she will have to continue to remain vigilant and ready to fight those wishing that scenario of women second to men to return, the episode showed in my opinion how little a women at one time had any power to decide her fate."."

I also talk about the very real present scenario where the rich have so much power over most of us, both male and female to the point where even in today's society there are two different levels of laws, one law we on the lower end of the financial equation must adhere too or face consequences or the laws designed to coddle the wealthier of those whom grace our society...

The Game of Thrones in my opinion could and should show the dangers that face us all when some (for instance the Koch brothers) have no real threat of having to face the consequences of criminal behaviors still very much exist in today's society as well as even a society of a thousand years ago....

Slavery is still very much an issue, skin color or ethnicity being second when we realize, it's us against them ,always has been, and seemingly always will be if history and present day events are compared...

Fear will always be used to keep the masses in line, the moment if ever when a society realizes there are more of us then of them, and not allow fear to control their daily lives will then and only then might we perhaps begin to win the war that has raged on for centuries among mankind where mankind's desire to have complete rule over others and feel superior over others is no longer such a pronounced reality for the majority of humans on earth....

Fear tactics that are still In use today and apparently the easiest ways of controlling others is of course like it or not mostly revolved around the concept of religions, status/wealth and or ethnicticity....

How we keep falling for such easy tactics considering our supposed intelligence is honestly beyond my understanding ....

Bottom line, Cessi was raped, it was a crime and yet as in today's world there are far too many who would feel considering the circumstances of the horrific crime that she deserved it....after all she had already slept with Jamie, her brother so why would she even fear it....

(Sigh)

My granddaughter is well aware what Jamie did was a crime regardless of Cessis history, no one has a right to make another a victim based on on ones supposed redemption, that coming from those who honestly felt Jamie was the one wronged.and therefore the real victim....and yes I've heard that reasoning as to why the raping of Cessi was not criminal simply because not only do they dislike her character but they viewed her as already Jamie's for want of a better term Sex Slave......