Oh, Game of Thrones. Could it be we’ve gone a few weeks without a rape? Or should I say, rapes. As I wrote for Bent: How innocent it looks now, the controversial Jaime-Cersei scene, with its single demure assault of a grieving woman by her brother beside the poisoned corpse of their incestuously-begotten son. The next episode gifted us with a whole flotilla of angry cocks as – in another departure from George R.R. Martin’s source books – the Night’s Watch assaulted en masse the already serially abused daughter-wives of Craster. It made for grim viewing. Watch the scene for long enough and the Cersei-Jaime-corpse caper takes on the fond, sepia edges of an Edwardian picnic. Ah, for the rapes of yesteryear. Game of Thrones, then this scene probably provoked a familiar feeling of angry exhaustion. This reaction can be difficult to manage, because the sadness and weariness means you don’t have much energy left for the anger. And – especially as a person who doesn’t generally have a problem with sex and violence – you don’t know where to direct the anger. Is it at George R.R. Martin, the author of the novels on which the show is based?… Read full this story
- Move Fast and Break Things, book review: Where did the internet go wrong?
- How to Talk to Older Kids About Sex
- Producers Will Reportedly Need to Explicitly Approve Sex Before It Happens
- Oxford University Student Activist Resigns After Sexual Assault Confession
- Everything Everyone Did Wrong On the Last Two Episodes of
- The Sex on
- Why have young people in Japan stopped having sex?
- Everything Everyone Did Wrong on This Week's
- Everything Everyone Did Wrong on Last Night's
, Sex and HBO: Where Did TV's Sexual Pioneer Go Wrong? have 279 words, post on jezebel.com at June 5, 2014. This is cached page on Drudgereport. If you want remove this page, please contact us.