Feminist writer on recent Game of Thrones rape. Starts well but soon descends into hysterics about rape culture.

M4Strings · 2014-04-23T00:09:21+00:00

In fact, this casual quote from a TV director unwittingly tells us quite a lot about what our culture thinks about rape. Namely, that Americans think it barely exists. They don’t seem to see rape anywhere.

As opposed to feminists who see rape everywhere, even where it isn't?

SirSkeptic · 2014-04-23T04:31:18+00:00

Geez! That scene was mild compared to the violent male sexual assault we've seen this and last season.

Gittiup · 2014-04-23T03:21:02+00:00

Can some one give her the memo that GOT is a work of medieval fantasy ?

monkeyhousezen · 2014-04-23T04:13:31+00:00

I wonder how the author would have reacted had HBO included the part of the story where, in Jaime's absence, Circe coerces her 15 year old cousin into taking Jaime's place in her bed.

These two characters are absolute train wrecks and had been pursuing an incestuous relationship for almost two decades (remember, that prick Jeofrey was Jaime's son) but you don't see her claiming that this is part of some plot to normalize incest.

chocoboat · 2014-04-23T01:55:08+00:00

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ugly_duck · 2014-04-23T15:39:54+00:00

This is what I don't get about feminists. This show, GoT is FILLED with rape, season after season, tons of rape, forced sexual aggression. The show also murders the shit out of EVERYONE, including CHILDREN (for comparison, GTA doesn't even let you kill kids, nor skyrim, and so on)

I didn't see any outrage of killing a boy by stabbing him in the throat slowly and graphically, but the 12th rape in the show.. holy shit, look out!

Everything is rape now (even super fictitious TV), that is what rape culture is. It's not all the rape, it's the projection of trying to turn every man into a rapist or pretend every man is ok with it. That is the western rape culture. Real rape culture is what women in Africa and the middle eat have to fear EVERY SINGLE DAY, with REAL fear, not manufactured fear.

ugly_duck · 2014-04-23T19:04:20+00:00

Where was the outrage when Theon had his penis cut off? The outrage when a 16 year old boy (Joffrey or Robb) was brutally murdered?

How about Ned, all the unnamed soldiers, etc and etc.

It's a drama, it is fantasy. It is for entertainment, and the show is damn fantastic at entertaining.

ThePigmanAgain · 2014-04-22T23:59:42+00:00

This is why i mostly don't bother with feminist articles. Even when they start out with a rational objection (the bit about the GOT rape) they soon use that to segue into bullshit about how "Americans think it barely exists. They don’t seem to see rape anywhere." Way to sabotage your own article, meathead.

Arby01 · 2014-04-25T01:07:13+00:00

Terry Richardson offering her a Vogue shoot in exchange for sex. This is a blatant act of sexual coercion,

this is buying the services of a prostitute. Is that considered rape now? (The discretion to put her in a fashion magazine). I notice the author calls this sexual coercion, but what was the coercion? This was an offer for a trade.

(For the record, it's a disgusting business practice, but rape? )

Or do we consider it rape, because he had something she wanted?

Should we also call it rape when a woman marries and sleeps with a wealthy man? Do we consider the lady that web Prince Harry of Britain to have been raped, since sleeping with him and producing heirs are the only way she might get to be Queen?

What about when the woman who is having sex is doing so in order to coerce the man into something he doesn't want to do? Who was raped then? He still has something she wants (his actions, whatever they may be) but he didn't make the offer? So, he both gets coerced and has raped her at the same time. Double dipping.

Or is this simply that he was up front about it, if he had only implied that she might get to be in vogue for sleeping with him but not stated outright, then that wouldn't be rape?

(wouldn't this have actually been a much better approach for him, "hey, I shoot for vogue, why don't we hang out, shoot some photos and see what happens, I'll have some test shots in my album if opportunities come up")

I mean, there are other fashion magazines, an aspiring model doesn't have to agree to this work, or she can complain to the magazine publishers, or the photographer buying agents.

(Now, if she had been selected for a shoot, and he came in and said, I am going to make you look like shit unless you sleep with me - that's coercion, parties are already committed and then conditions are applied - but as stated in the article - I don't see it as rape. Shitty. Disgusting, and abusive, yes. Likely to cost him his career? I hope so. )

Or, do you think I am making the authors argument for her.

EDIT: I had rearranged phrasing and left a sentence in the wrong place.

Title	Feminist writer on recent Game of Thrones rape. Starts well but soon descends into hysterics about rape culture.
Author	ThePigmanAgain
Upvotes	9
Comments	17
Date	April 22, 2014 11:56 PM UTC (12 years ago)
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