I have no opinion on the Abbey Road thing, except that it would be more polite to try to get it at light traffic times (I don’t really need or particularly want my picture on Abbey Road so no, not everyone wants one).

Or rather than tolerating crappy behavior people could work to put together some sort of informational campaign on how not to be a dick when visiting someone else’s city/town/place. I’m thinking brochures (in a friendlier tone than I am inclined to write) in hotel rooms and at museums and other sites or something.

To some extent you have to suck it up, but c’mon, the folks who don’t understand why stopping and standing in front of an escalator or turnstile is a bad idea (or who have their whole group meet up right in front of the turnstiles)? They could learn some basic manners for living in an urban environment.

I don’t disagree with you that it’s litter (and it’s silly and destructive) but...cmon, animals aren’t stupid. Well, some art, but most can tell metal from food.

I don’t sew :(

I keep an address book too! I travel a lot and like to send postcards, and don’t always have access to my address list on Google drive (most of Myanmar for example doesn’t have reliable Internet), and may not have brought a device with me on the trip. I need them! How else will I always know I can write and send…

I asked my grandma how women then got their hair so...coiffed. Because it’s really hard to do that to one’s own hair especially if one is not a professional.

Her answer? Some women could do it themselves, but most went to the salon once a week to get their hair “set” in a certain style and kept it perky in curlers…

Yeah if you’re over a size maybe 8 or so, you can forget the thrift store for these.

You’re a big fan of highblown rhetoric, aren’t you?

Anyway, “about Sansa also” is not good enough. As of yet it’s not as mainly about Sansa as I feel it ought to be, though there is a chance the showrunners will prove me wrong.

And AGAIN with the bullshit assumption that a rape affects someone connected with the victim as much as it affects the victim, to the point where the witness’s story might take precedence. Yes, it CAN be about Sansa more than Theon, because Sansa was the one who was raped.

What I’m seeing (though I hope the show…

You don’t think it could have been depicted in a way that didn’t show her body, but also didn’t make it all about Theon?

And if they show the effect of sexual violence against Theon on Theon himself, that’s one thing...but to show the violence of Theon’s and Sansa’s sexual assault on Theon would be quite another (making all that sexual violence about him). Obviously rape can impact more than just the victim, but putting Theon’s reaction…

It showed Theon watching, and his face as he reacted, her looking for help from Theon, Theon betraying her and what Theon may or may not do in the future.

I did like how Sansa walked behind Ramsay through most of the battlements of Winterfell with that cloak over her head like the Grim Reaper. There’s no way that visual was unintentional. I think she’s gonna off him. By the end of the season, or at least soon.

It’s not progressing Ramsay’s character. It’s progressing Theon’s. Important to note, it doesn’t really seem to be progressing Sansa’s.

You can still show how shitty and patriarchal the world is while also showing the effect rape has on the female characters, which they don’t seem to do.

That’s not what Mortal said at all. She’s not saying rape shouldn’t be there - it is an integral part of that world, we all know that. She said it seems to be being used to further Sam’s storyline, not Gilly’s. The rapes or attempted rapes of female characters always seem to further the stories of other men, not the…

I doubt Danaerys would accept this as a definition of “free”, but the slaveowners are doing it anyway becausde Danaerys lacks the power to do much about it, nor does she have the local information networks to inform her that it’s happening.

The best I can say about that is that she doesn’t know. She should know, any decent ruler would know, she should at least be able to deduce it, but she doesn’t. Either willful ignorance, or a way to show that she just doesn’t have the local network of support and “whispers” that she needs to get the information a…