Jason, you missed the biggest error of all:
THANK YOU! She cannot twerk. What she is doing is about to slip a disk and handicap herself. She needs to stop before she ends up needing a wheelchair!
That gene patent denial is for naturally-occurring genes and only applies to the US. This is clearly something that happened 25-30 years ago overseas. Plus the women are clearly not natural.
actually, the legal ruling this week says you can't patent artificial genes that have the same construction as naturally occurring genes -Add an extra GCTA someplace and patent away!
Not to mention that (spoiler alert) the story goes on to describe the situations and consequences that arise from external hegemony, naive appropriation and misplaced self-serving altruism. I mean I guess if you want to judge a story half told, that's a writers prerogative, but usually even sophomore lit students wait…
Thank you. I wish the author of the original post had spent a tenth of the critical thinking skills you possess when considering GRRM's work instead of just spewing his knee-jerk reactions on to my screen. Would have spared me some serious facepalm.
It's not Earth literally but GoT has always had TONS of parallels between our world and theirs, geographically, culturally, geopolitically... Westeros is a like a conquered-by-the-white-man, taken-from-the-natives North America — but the world is also a funhouse mirror of the Old World — Westeros stands like a…