Wait, you think you had an “egalitarian-ish” society when Obama was elected?

I’d be on board with that as allegory except for the fact that the US was pretty well racist before Obama too.

Again, I don’t think the answer is “remove all scenes that make people uncomfortable”.

So you’re saying that this isn’t at all an attractively above average man?

Average age of first marriage in the middle ages was 19-20 for both men and women. Nobility might be betrothed earlier, but people were aware that pregnancy and birth were dangerous for young girls. Someone like Margaret Beaufort being married and pregnant at 12 was the outlier not the norm.

I mean, that’s a completely different story.

It seems most recappers I’ve seen are trying to retcon the situation to be a choice between which one will be saved, mother or child, but that’s not what I got from the show at all.

“so that makes it okay”

Emily Carey isn’t 28, she’s 19...

I thought the same thing about the Queen’s death. If we assume this it taking place in the more or less middle ages, which I think is a fair guess, medical techniques back then weren’t exactly up to snuff. So it was a life or death choice, with the baby lives or both die, there are NO other options.

as will marrying for political reasons.  and marrying for money.  and marrying for any other reason, really.

Marrying for love in Westeros will get you stabbed in a hurry. 

This week a 12 year old was suggested as a wife for a man 4 times her age, which clearly horrifies him and he decides not to go through with it precisely because of that.

Reminds me of the typically surly Scot Andy Murray winning Olympic gold and being asked by your typical vapid U.S. interviewer how it felt to win a gold for England. His response: “Britain.” While grinding his teeth.

Yeah people in the UK (and honestly many places that aren’t the US) feel very protective of their local football club, and it can be a precarious existence- quite a few teams don’t exist anymore, even ones that did very well in their prime. (And in the UK this is also tied into regional problems, Wales and North…

LOL thinking FPP is actually being followed and enforced. Because it hasn’t been.

Yeah on the one hand, and this is in the top tier, you have City, who’s lineup is basically a cheat code, owned by Arab billionaires. In mid to lower table you have teams like West Ham, whose owners made their money with a chain of sex shops, and then you have teams at the bottom who are up and down a lot, your…

Financial Fair Play actually prevents wealthy owners from coming in and just spending for a top-tier team at a loss, and the Football League in particular harshly punishes violations, oftentimes with points deductions that can result in multiple relegations. Teams have to fund their player salaries and transfer…

Well, the slight difference and Reynolds and Mac are significantly less rich than your average sports team owners?

The big difference here is that clubs are rooted in the communities where they’re based. Owners come and go, some good, some bad, but the club and its supporters remain. The idea that a team can up sticks and move 500 miles away is treated with horror.