George R.R. Martin's gritty fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire, and the HBO adaptation, Game of Thrones, explore the inherent dangers and horrors of a society where power is wielded absolutely and men solely retain it. It's sexist, graphic and gut wrenching and all designed that way on purpose.
An Amusing Game Of Thrones Derails With Visceral Sexual Assaults
He begs Brienne to just "accept" her fate and she quickly snaps back "would you." No, he wouldn't because he's a man. In Jaime's eyes (and many men's eyes) he'd still have some minute measure of power despite the act of rape being entirely about the complete annihilation of it.
Apr 9, 2013
Some Women Win And Some Lose The Battle With The Patriarchy On Game Of Thrones
Somehow in Catelyn's head her betrayal of her "motherly" duties to him as a child are what have brought down all the misery upon her head. It's a horrific moment.
Apr 1, 2013
Game Of Thrones Is Back And The Prostitutes Rule The Roost
hey're the only two women not of noble blood and it is no coincidence that they're both prostitutes. It is the only way a woman without a title can hope to make it in the patriarchal feudalist society George R. R. Martin has carefully cultivated from history.
May 7, 2012
Game of Thrones Gets More Gratuitous With Near Rapes When King’s Landing Riots
When I was fourteen the height of hotness was The Saint. You know exactly which [...]
- Part One: Lena Headey Woos Me Into Liking Cersei
- Part Two: Catelyn As Odysseus's Penelope
- Part Three: Cersei Is A Bad Feminist
- Part Four: Fairy Tales Subverted
- Part Five: Arya Gets Genderqueer
- Part Six: Cersei Lannister Is A Truly Evil Scarlett O'Hara
- Part Seven: Captive Heroines Shamed Into Submission
- Part Eight: Daenerys is Womankind's Hero
- Winter Is Coming
- The Kingsroad
- Lord Snow
- Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things
- The Wolf and the Lion
- A Golden Crown
- You Win or You Die
- The Pointy End
- Baelor
- Fire and Blood
- The North Remembers
- The Night Lands
- What Is Dead May Never Die
- Garden of Bones
- The Ghost of Harrenhal
- The Old Gods and the New
- A Man Without Honor
- The Prince of Winterfell
- Blackwater
- Valar Morghulis
- Valar Dohaeris
- Dark Wings, Dark Words
- Walk of Punishment
- And Now His Watch is Ended
- Kissed by Fire
- Unknown
- The Bear and the Maiden Fair
- Unknown
- The Rains of Castamere
- Mhysa

















