So, Apparently, Game of Thrones Is Sexist.

Malkor · 2012-06-15T20:35:36+00:00

That guy is gonna die of shock once they do the rest of the books.

I wonder if he knows that a lot of it is toned down for the small-screen.

2012-06-16T04:20:56+00:00

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ephaesus · 2012-06-15T21:15:35+00:00

She's upset that the show is sexist, and by sexist she means that women aren't treated equally.

Yet she mentions Daenerys, a young, blonde, fair woman who becomes queen of a tribe of savages (despite being, effectively, sold as a slave-bride) and leads many of them to salvation...and that this same woman is the adoptive mother of three dragons (powerful in their own right, and magical too). Also, that she has a legitimate claim to the throne over seven nations?

Wow. Who knew that creating a female character who becomes a powerful savior of slaves and victims in a very unjust world would be considered "sexist" by a feminist.

What would she except as realistic? "Once upon a time, a woman was born and after she had a flawless childhood, she grew up and solved all of the problems in the world because men are bad. The End"?

2012-06-15T21:27:23+00:00

Someone needs to go back to Literature 101 and learn about subtext.

BinaryShadow · 2012-06-15T21:32:16+00:00

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fondueguy · 2012-06-16T00:51:08+00:00

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fondueguy · 2012-06-16T06:29:47+00:00

Well, yes, 14th century Europe wasn’t a lot of fun if you were a woman

Wtf is this moron talking about?

One episode involves dozens of young boys being slain just to "show how bad the king is". In one episode a main character (girl) mistakingly kills a young boy and the story just goes on without giving a shit! The girl even brags about it in a later episode... Tyrion treats female prostitutes well but he has no trouble shaming the man the queen is using as a fuckbuddy.

Lady Stark takes on an empowered role when she takes a prisoner but she doesn't have to back anything up when said prisoner saves her. A group of wildlings were all killed for trying to kidnap a royal boy, all but the wildling woman.

Tl;dr

Women get away with all kinds of shit (they are empowered but not harmed) and men are disposable.

throwaway6432 · 2012-06-15T21:19:09+00:00

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2012-06-16T01:27:13+00:00

So all fantasy worlds have to match feminist fantasies... okay.

RexBearcock · 2012-06-16T01:34:18+00:00

Its major plot points, based on George R. R Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire novels, are so simplistic that they may as well have been scrawled in crayon on the intricate wallpaper of literary-televisual tradition

Reading the description of the show, it makes me wonder if the author actually paid any attention aside from the "rape and ultra violence" she talks of. I guess if that's all you want to see, that's all you will see.

2012-06-16T03:06:51+00:00

What.

There are lots of women who get the short end of the stick in A Song of Ice and Fire. More so than men, because it is indeed set in a sexist culture. But stories that are themselves sexist do not have Aria Starks or Daenerys Targaryens or (sure, evil, but witty) Cersei Lannisters occupying so much of the plot. There are so many strong female voices in these books, often directly addressing the sexism of their surrounding culture, that I'm pretty sure this author has not read the books (and is not paying attention to the TV series).

That, or the commentator is just one of those partisan nuts who imagines Injustice™ everywhere.

MockingDead · 2012-06-15T21:10:50+00:00

She can fuck right off. The story is simplistic? I am sorry is not one of maudlin memoirs of some dawdling halfwit woman or thinly disappear lesbian erotica. Since she doesn't know shot about the novels, she is easily dismissed. You know what novel is really sexist? Twilight and 50 shades.

Feminazis need to back off this. I will choke them out.

biglebowski55 · 2012-06-16T02:29:11+00:00

Shouldn't it be? It's sort of a period piece, right?

zyk0s · 2012-06-16T00:37:34+00:00

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ohreallynowz · 2012-06-16T05:49:40+00:00

Such BS. What pissed me off the most is that she kept calling Dany blonde. She has silver hair for fucks sakes. It's fantastical, ya know like the dragons, who apparently tie into the racist amazing 'blondeness' of Dany. God people like this are ridiculous. Talk about seeing what you WANT to see. I know violence isn't the answer but I want to rage-smack this woman.

airodynamic1000 · 2012-06-16T03:16:54+00:00

The SoIaF world is violent and in the dothraki culture there is rape culture. It is depicting a society. The hunger games also depicts a society. Just fuck

MartialWay · 2012-06-17T00:57:35+00:00

I'll admit, I didn't read the books, and didn't pay attention to every nuance of every scene, but was Daenerys actually getting raped? She was above Age of Consent for where she was, and seemed to believe a wife should have sex with her husband. What happened in the books?

Title	So, Apparently, Game of Thrones Is Sexist.
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Date	June 15, 2012 8:20 PM UTC (14 years ago)
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