The words you use aren’t even tangentially relevant to the problem. Men’s magazines use very similar terms, beach body, flab, fat, toned, lean, diet. IT also has no problem reinforcing that this is the body shape all men should aim for and using derogatory terms for those that aren’t that shape.

Yeah, this is a bigger issue than just one law in one state. There’s a weird gender dichotomy in the whole of society when it comes to nipples. It’s fine to see male nipples but not for female nipples. It applies on beaches, at swimming pools, on the street, in movies, TV, whatever. There’s no (or not as many) sexual…

I’m not saying that an entity that routinely uses all-male or all-white panels isn’t sexist/racist or that a disproportionate number of same isn’t a sign of issues, but taken on a case-by-case basis the individual panels may not be problematic.

Wouldn’t it be even more awesome if contributors were there on the basis of their authority on the subject at hand, which may lead to uneven representation one way or another just as an artifact of clustering in small data sets?

Goddamn idiots at Fox News, why can’t they have a panel of three women who can, by nature of owning vaginas, authoritatively tell us in detail why women vote a certain way, preferably compressing the thousands of pages of information and opinion into sound bites of 30 seconds or less?

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lol, ty. I planned on rotating through the book names then through the ship names.

I ... actually agree with the Vatican on this one. Which is a sentence I never thought I would ever string together.

Not a US-ian, but I’d say having an actual socialist president would be better for the US than having their first woman president.

I think there is merit on both sides of the argument. A woman at one-month pregnant is just as dangerous as a woman who is not pregnant. If it is deemed necessary to shackle her then she should be shackled. Equally, a woman in labour is not a threat to anyone except whoever is holding her hand during a contraction and…

It’s mostly Jennifer Saunders playing Jennifer Saunders.

I think because even GOT won’t directly focus on someone being raped.

It’s an interesting, if disturbing argument. By that logic, would that then mean a woman forced at gunpoint to perform oral sex on another person who is unwilling/unconscious is also a rapist?

It moves on both their character arcs. Without the motivation for Theon/Reek, they would both still be at Winterfell. Sansa’s position at Winterfell is so dangerous because she is once again without allies.

Yes, death is worse than rape. I think we can all agree on that?

I think there is a difference in the way we are affected by experiencing things vicariously and the way we are affected by things we logically know are happening.

I wonder if that’s part of the attraction. There aren’t any fairy tale endings. The best the characters can hope for is a quick death.

I’d agree he was an instrument of rape, but he wasn’t willing and the act was another way for Ramsey to further degrade Theon and push him further into Reek just as much as it was a way to degrade Jeyne.

Well the show has always specialised in developing characters and making them important or even pivotal to the plot then killing them off with extreme violence; see Rob Stark, his mother (kind of), Ned Stark, Oberyn, Khal Drogo). In each of these scenes (except Drogo’s) it was graphic and the camera didn’t pan away or…

When you are a small child you go to the same bathroom as whichever parent you are with, so I wouldn’t worry about it at that point.