Yea! No fair!

It doesn’t just have to be sexually enticing to titillating. Taking the scene of torture, of which rape is, and lingering on it, increasing your dread and discomfort, is absolutely something this show and the books indulge in. Fetishizing rape is something both the book and show do; they’re pretty obsessed with…

I find it horrifying. The idea that millions of readers can just skim over those “details” like, “Oh, well...that sort of “thing” just happens”.

That poster is clearly not worth it.

Wow. These are your readers and viewers, GRRM.

What? There is...there is so much circular thinking here that I cannot even comprehend the mental gymnastics...what the hell, you cannot have it both ways.

Please learn how to spell before trying to have an adult conversation.

Murder and beatings are rarely sexualized the way that rape is, so it’s often displayed in a far less problematic manner.

Because it’s only problematic when the characters are important!

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

Same. Learned the hard, awful way. :(

This is a REAL problem here and this really needs to stop. >:(

You stopped reading because you met the writer? Now THAT is more fascinating than anything I’ve read in this or any other thread about this book or show.

Why is that eye roll worthy? Lots of posters are frustrated that women in this show world and in the books are shown to simply move on from rape as if it’s nothing at all. Neither the book writer nor the show writers properly handle the issue; that’s eye roll worthy and that’s what I’m getting from many of the…

It’s good to have talents.

Oh boy! You really got them. Oh boy, everyone.

Or because of the writing.

Because you know so much about what this person does with her or his time off the internet.

This is someone who has clearly tried hard to become a fan. Multiple times. And yes, people have the right to criticize the show even if they do not watch every episode religiously. There are other ways to consume and become familiar enough with the contents of the show and then discuss it.

Exactly. The viewers, much like you’ve experienced in this thread, have come to expect rape in “this world” as normal. Rape is no big deal. It’s just an event that gets the ball rolling when there’s a lull in the storytelling, it seems.