An astute counter argument that really undermines the main point I made. Keep up the critical thinking!

Do not forget, though, that Jaime and Cersei are siblings. Siblings who grew up playing together, fighting together, and then eventually having sex together. Given the depth of the relationship they have, can we really just compare it to a typical modern day rape? Can we truly say it fundamentally changes Jaime's…

Responding to the humanize comment, it is not that "a woman" must be humanized by rape, but that "Cersei" might have been. She is the most conniving character on the show who has with no sound evidence asked her brother/lover to kill her other brother. She is a character who, not by being a woman but by being…