Let’s not sugarcoat it like Cersei, Lysa and Catelyn (at first) were all deeply in love with her husbands and wanted nothing more than to have sex with them. They did it because they had to do it.

Everyone knows it’s rape and it’s horrible as an act, but murder exists too and it’s all over Westeros - much of it justified. Care to go into detail on all of the unnecessary and senseless killing in the show?

I think the disconnect between rape in the real world today and sex in Westeros between a husband and wife skews the view of this.

I explained it elsewhere, but I think that’s a very short view. As I said, her being raped is pretty much par for the course for the setting. It’s a battle she couldn’t win. Ramsay added a special flair with forcing Theon to watch, but once she accepted the marriage she knew what was going to happen. Did she enjoy it?…

Sansa has been a manipulated pawn from the start. She had no active role in Joffrey’s demise. She simply became a target because of her being an unwitting accomplice. She babysat Robin and did was Littlefinger told her to do, lying about his murder of her aunt.

Shocking development from the Song of Ice and Fire: Bad things happen to major characters.

Hey, it’s a fantasy. You can let the setting be whatever you want despite the obvious.

How am I being an asshole? You argument was that a main character got raped. Lots of characters face harsher outcomes - many of them nobodies that were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. No big deal?

Ahh, so because those fantasy elements exist other realism should be avoided ... with regard to main characters at least.

Also, which characters are rape-able and for that matter kill-able? Only minor characters that are not of consequence? You’d fit right in with medieval nobility.

So you effectively have no idea what it’s about or why you don’t like it.

The Song of Ice and Fire is significantly based on the War of the Roses.

This story takes place in a medieval setting. To say otherwise is to be intellectually dishonest. Fantasy is added, but it’s clearly reflective of the middle ages and a time of kings, queens, serfs, knights, etc. A time when those in power treated people like shit, especially commoners, women, the deformed and…

A man eaten alive without proof of wrongdoing? What about another man being forced into a political marriage? How about a girl finding true love with her rapist? What about an adult woman committing statutory rape with a teenage boy? A little girl ordering the murder of 2 people and assisting in the murder of another…

In Westeros, it isn’t considered rape. It’s considered a husband doing his duty. It’s a fucked up world.

The scene isn’t taking place in 2015. It’s taking place in a medieval setting as the result of an arranged, political marriage that requires consummation. Is it horrible? Yes. Is Danerys having an possibly innocent man eaten by a dragon horrible? Yes. It chopping the head off a deserter who saw ice zombies horrible?…

They had to show Theon’s face. That was the point of the scene.

I think it’s pretty shortsighted to call Theon useless. He’s linked to the Starks, the Boltons and the Greyjoy’s. He could actually be quite pivotal.

Obviously he wasn’t going to free himself from the chains for those reasons. He’s been in that position for 4 years. Effectively, Theon just say his sister, the most innocent of his real Stark family, brutalized. He has no self worth but he may still have empathy and that is why he may now break free.

GTFO. Ramsay and Myranda both provided plenty of foreshadowing that things weren’t going to be great for Sansa.