“I was arguing that a marriage like that could definitely end in sex that Danaerys is consenting of.”

I remember coming across a Twitter thread from an actual Medieval historian who debunked this idea that child marriages amongst European nobility were commonly consummated while the bride was still a girl (which includes early-mid teens). It did happen, but only in “emergencies” (which, still very gross) to maintain…

It’s been awhile since I read it, but I’m pretty sure Dany agreed to have sex with Drogo because she knew she was about to be raped so decided to go with it. There was no part of that scene in the book that made me think it was cute, romantic, or anything but icky. Sort of set the tone for a lot of what goes on in the…

I think a very decent amount of the response was because they aren’t to be trusted with that material, as two rich white guys who can’t fucking write and have already shown how extremely insensitive they are to women onscreen, and how they barely can even whisper about race in GoT and leave their strongest minority…

So you think I’m arguing that they go around raping people?  Oh man, you’re brilliant.

Bruce Willis morphed from John McClane into Archie Bunker. The difference is that Willis is real and ridiculously wealthy with no feasible reason to be the grumpy fuck that he is.

.......nah.

That bit in Ferris Bueller is where I go from on the side of Ferris & Co. to rooting for Rooney to get their asses (hmm, maybe I could have worded that better).

I have not read the books, so I don’t know if there were times in the books where Drogo raped Dani, but it goes: changed from consensual sex to rape and then falls in love with rapist; brother rapes sister and it “turns into” consensual sex; the Ramsay Bolton-Sansa rape which would have shut down a less-popular show.…

I’ll take a "yo mama" joke over arguing that 13 year old children can consent to sex with an adult. 

Yeah, the “it was a joke!!” defense has been used by so many assholes against so many people (and frequently men telling women they ‘can’t take a joke’ - hell, I had someone on The Takeout last week tell me they were sorry I had “no sense of humor”). Fuck off, if you need to portray me as a humorless scold to make…

You’re working pretty hard to justify raping 13 year olds here

I think part of it is when there’s 2 guys in charge, they can play off each other, and feed into each others’ bad impulses. I have a pair of cousins who I got along with fine individually, but who were just impossible together, because then they were really just being each others’ audiences, and not caring at all…

I had some vague issues with them before, but after reading this I think they’re both complete assholes. Each of those stories about “pranks” they pulled ended with someone uncomfortably reassuring their interviewer that “it was funny” so that they wouldn’t come off as too critical of someone who holds more power in…

They think making teenage girls cry is funny.

So they added a rape where there was not one because they thought it was exciting, had a rape between Jaime and Cersei that “became consensual”--and then tried to write a series where the south won...why on earth could anybody find these showrunners problematic?

Heath Ledger dancing on those steep concrete steps in Ten Things I Hate About You has always made me irrationally nervous.

I’d like to shout out the scene in Lincoln where the Congressmen pass the Thirteenth Amendment, and start singing “The Battle Cry of Freedom” right then and there. Historical? I have no idea. Awesome? Indubitably.

Leaving out Bande à part is one thing, but you could at least have mentioned where that Simple Men scene comes from.

fuck slideshows but I hope this had the Penis Song from The Sweetest Thing.