I think Joker and Thief was speaking hyperbolically in the same way you might commiserate with a sick friend by saying “getting the flu is the worst”.

In the Bounty ad, sure washing dishes is shown as a Mom chore and taking out the trash a Dad chore. But both Mom and Dad clean up after the kid.

You seem like a reasonable person (as opposed to the petulant children who often make such arguments) so I’m curious about your thoughts: what’s so silly about changing an established character’s gender?

Death Note is pretty good on the “not many anime-tropes” front; less good on the “the female characters aren’t pointless” front...

Maybe try Monster? From what I remember (having watched it years ago) I think it’s closer to the “real-life” end of the continuum than Death Note so it might be more to your taste.

I don’t want to give the impression that I’m hung up on any of this; I’m very comfortable with something being an impressive athletic feat but not a sport, like ballet for example. Like I said, I just think it’s an interesting thing to discuss (and it is very refreshing to have a civil discussion pretty much anywhere…

All of this discussion is ultimately people trying to retroactively justify decisions made based on person biases; I don’t think there’s a “right” answer (other than, like you said, “I know it when I see it”). Doesn’t stop the discussion from being fun though. To that end...

Your system is interesting.

You’re conflating House Bolton with Ramsay. House Bolton has an interest in playing by the rules but Ramsay does not: so long as he can maintain some form of power, he doesn’t have any ambition and therefore no interest in the game. Facilitating a marriage between House Bolton and House Stark makes (some) sense for…

Do you think anyone sincerely recognized Theon as the Lord of Winterfell while he held the castle? Simply occupying the castle does not, to my mind, confer the title as well. That might sure up a disputed claim, but without some other tie I think you would just be viewed as an usurper. The issue then is determining…

1. In what way is her marriage to Ramsay legitimate in the eyes of the Iron Throne? She was already married at the time as far as they’re concerned. And does Sansa herself consider the marriage valid?

I disagree. The Iron Throne would only recognize her claim via her Stark heritage since they wouldn’t consider her marriage to Ramsay valid. Her status as Lady of Winterfell would then rest on whether they gave Winterfell back to House Stark after determining that the Boltons had betrayed them. The North would…

I agree that that was very out of character for Littlefinger but I think they could just about have gotten away with it without sacrificing Sansa’s character. Granted, that would have taken some deeper characterization than I think the showrunners are willing to give her character, but it could have been done.

How would Sansa’s rape and/or death help Littlefinger? Him selling off a fake Arya as he did in the books makes sense but handing over the last (known) legitimate Stark to an unpredictable violent degenerate without so much as a bidding war?

I agree that there wasn’t a realistic way to rescue Sansa once she’d been given to Ramsey (which is a severe characterization of Littlefinger if nothing else, but that’s a tangent) but that’s a far cry from deciding to depict her rape the way they did.

So to “counter protest” a person making their own decisions about their appearance you... made your own decisions about your appearance?

How do you get rid of stereotypes about gender when gender is a set of stereotypes?

I could see her choosing not to get involved in disagreements between Paul and Prue, and that being spun as standoffish-ness.

So I am not a lawyer-type person, but it seems like this could be handled under existing laws more or less by treating each participant as a partner in two marriages; A is married to both B and C, B is married to both A and C, and C is married to both A and B. This gives you three possible divorce scenarios: complete…

I was all ready to be annoyed with your anti-“throuple” stance until you brought out “triumvirate”. Now I’m annoyed that I’m in a V so the term wouldn’t really apply.