Yeah, no they aren't, and I say that as a huge book fan.

It's really bizarre seeing the mental gymnastics you're putting yourself through to justify the excessive depictions of rape on this show. Something tells me that this bothers you more than you're willing to admit, or you wouldn't be making so many disingenuous arguments about the TV adaptation.

Calling someone out for making illogical, disingenuous arguments which defend rape culture (unwittingly or not—I'm not going to make assumptions about whether you're arguing in good faith or not) is not the same as insulting them.

I'm not spinning anything—if you don't want to appear as someone who defends the sexualization of rape and violence against women, don't defend the sexualization of rape and violence against women.

Maybe we aren't watching the same show.

Okay, no. You fail. You don't get to talk about the books and the TV adaptation as if they are the same creature, and for someone who thinks they are an expert in "Language 101" (I'm sorry, but LOL), it's interesting that you are subscribing to the intentional fallacy while seemingly being unaware of what you're…

It's really bizarre seeing the mental gymnastics you're putting yourself through to justify the excessive depictions of rape on this show. Something tells me that this bothers you more than you're willing to admit, or you wouldn't be making so many disingenuous arguments about the TV adaptation.

This is a brilliant article and I'm delighted to see it posted here. More than any of the other articles on this topic, I think this one hits the really troubling aspects of the rape-a-thon that is the TV adaptation.

Yawn. You're going to have to troll a little bit harder.

You seem pleasant.

Yeah, that's part of the irony, actually. My parents are very dysfunctional, and I grew up in a verbally and sometimes physically abusive household. Hard to stomach the self-help obsession and the privileging of "positivity" when it's so hypocritical. So yeah—I guess don't make assumptions about someone's background…

XIAP. RUOMA.

Haha. My parents live in the Northwest, and are from California. The pretend-hippie is most at home on the left coast.

Now that would really be a reason to get behind this water positivity!

Sounds like someone has their own tingles to worry about!

Don't worry, my father has an endlessly rotating selection of self-help books to refer to—there's always something else.

Yes, you are right on—that's what their thinking was. To be fair, I have plenty of thoughts about energy and spirituality that would get me mocked/trolled right out of this comments section, but I just had to share the story about the water jug when I saw this post. :)

Truth! My example about my parents is one—one parent is disabled and doesn't work, the other is a teacher. Didn't stop them from loving the water book. :)

As a white person and an ally (not to derail, just to add my agreement), I find it very upsetting seeing such a hateful word spelled out on the front page. If we are going to censor f****t, why is this word different?

If only that were true! It'd make identification a whole lot easier.