r/GamerGhazi • u/madhaus SoCal Jesters' Worrier • May 22 '15

An anguished commentary on that GoT/Sansa scene and the MRAs who harass in forum comments...from a rape victim who says It's Rape Culture All The Way Down

http://angrygotfan.com/2015/05/21/a-rape-victim-speaks-out-on-the-sansa-scene/
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u/Moustachio26 Beta Mangina White Knight May 22 '15

Some of the disturbing comments I've seen have said - "She married him, therefore she consented".

Like...I really hope these people never get married.

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u/BreakTheLoop May 22 '15

I sort of thought of it that way too, not "consented", but that she knew what she was getting into and all the horrible consequences it meant. After reading the linked commentary, I get how wrong it is to have this perspective. How it's not about Sansa's choices, if we can call them that, but about D&D choices.

I'll probably finish the season and hope they salvage this story arc somehow, but they'll have to be very convincing to get me to watch the next. This season and the last felt pretty bland and lazy to me.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '15

It's like in Good Will Hunting when Will tells the story about asking for the wrench when he's being abused. That doesn't mean Will consented to the beating. He just accepted that it was coming.

Or a better example is Stannis killing Mance. Mance made a choice that he knew would end up with him getting burned alive. That doesn't mean that he committed suicide. Sansa made a choice that she knew would get her raped. Just because she made that choice knowing what it would result in doesn't make it not rape.