lol, your reading comprehension isn't the best, is it? I'm criticizing the books; the show merely picked up where they left off. I am commenting thus because this article praises the books and condemns the show as uniquely bad in comparison. Both are flawed is my point. I don't hate either.

It's also very frightening that even more people read the Jaime/Cersei scene in the books as not being sexual assault, either. In the text, Cersei says no. Jaime doesn't respect it. He is a rapist in either case. The show just made it more obvious, as opposed to the book's "keep pushing after the no and she'll…

And the "grey" bit is what is troubling. Consent either exists or it doesn't, there isn't a middle ground. I don't see how it's useful to the plot, either, but it was Martin who wrote the original scene which is a lot more problematic than book fans are willing to admit, and I suppose Martin is the only one who has…

I am not here to defend Benioff and Weiss… but the truth is, Dany was raped in the books. Repeatedly. She was a 13-year-old girl who was coerced and had no real choice. Cersei was sexually assaulted the moment she told Jaime "No" and he didn't respect it. Excusing either of those scenes supports the idea that a…