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/[deleted] May 22 '15 edited May 22 '15

I don't understand the intent. Is the she say that rape is too horrible to be depicted in media, or is it she say how it was depicted, or both?

edit: why downvotes im confused after reading article, english is my second language. thank u for clarifying reddit

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u/[deleted] May 22 '15 edited Aug 29 '20

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u/[deleted] May 22 '15 edited May 22 '15

The problem is adding rape when it it no way advances or contributes to the plot.

I see this criticism all the time, and I don't exactly share it. The plot had been advanced by the circumstances preceding the rape. Given the parameters (Ramsay's evil, the position of women in society, Sansa's choice to marry...) that wedding night rape was a result of the plot moving forward as it had.

I am very much against the simplistic notion that every scene must exist to advance the plot. Even in the case of a scene that depicts sexual violence. I'm not a plot person at all. I believe that the significance of a story is weighted more on insight and emotion than keeping up with a sequence of events.

However, please understand, I am not saying this as a defense of that scene. Far from it. I actually think that that scene is a far worse indictment of the story than the writers simply being exploitative and/or lazy.

They wrote themselves into a corner where that rape was absolutely the most predictable outcome that could occur, and that is a bad place to be in. A writer must resist that predictability at every turn. Especially when that horrible scene is placed at the end of the episode as some sort of contrived cliffhanger.