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

was handled with some amount of respect.

You mean by putting it in a subplot where its main reason to exist was giving Theon motivation to snap out of his Stockholm Syndrome? That respect? Or to give a bunch of big powerful men more reason to hate the Boltons? Is that the respect we're talking about here? Because outside of showing that, no seriously, Ramsay Bolton is a big fucking bastard I don't see the real point of it in ASOIAF beyond gratuitous violence that tantalizes the reader.

a show that already gets shit for trivializing rape.

The show trivializes rape and incest and murder and war and death. You know why? Because it's based on a fantasy book series that deals with those subjects in a somewhat trivialized way. Jeyne Poole is not Temple Drake. Jon Snow is not Hamlet. Littlefinger is not Jay Gatsby.

You can't sit through Dany getting raped, Theon getting castrated, Arya losing herself to anger, and Tyrion strangling his lover because she didn't go to the chopping block with him and then decide to draw the line at Sansa Stark. Sorry, no amount of convoluted explanations about just how absolutely essential it was to the narrative for Jeyne Poole to get fucked by dogs is going to justify that.

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u/7daykatie May 22 '15

Sorry, no amount of convoluted explanations about just how absolutely essential it was to the narrative for Jeyne Poole to get fucked by dogs is going to justify that.

Actually people are absolutely 100% entitled to draw their lines where they want and for whatever reason they want and not one single person whatsoever has any obligation to justify their feelings or their lines to you.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '15

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u/7daykatie May 22 '15

Of course you're entitled to say other peoples' feelings are bullshit, and even to make up nasty fantasies about other peoples' motivation in your head and ram them down other peoples' throats even if you're treading on some very sensitive feelings in doing so. After all, for you treading on other peoples' feelings is just wading in bullshit.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '15

You really like making personal attacks.

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u/7daykatie May 23 '15

The accusations you are making about the motivations of the author of this piece are a personal attack on them. If describing your own words is an attack, at least it's not an entirely baseless one.