The indoctrination that his parents put him through could be considered sexual abuse. I think imposing sick attitudes toward sexuality onto children from birth is actually imposing adult sexuality and adult sexual expectations onto them. Growing up in that environment, coupled with the fact that he was always taught…

It was for the sense that they were seeing something they weren’t supposed to see. Like, that the girls were underage, or took drunk to really consent to posing, etc. Same reason upskirts and other creepshots remain popular even while porn is readily available to all. There are a lot of dudes who primarily get off on…

Oh ok.

The BDSM romance subgenre actually does lead heavily toward wrapping itself in so many props, costumes, rituals, honorifics, fantasy clubs, etc that it might as well be a Regency. Just replace Almack’s with The Whipping Post, or whatever the club is called.

Willing Victim is not Dark Romance, is the thing. I have never seen consent more skillfully yet explicitly negotiated. It’s practically a primer, without being offputtingly clinical in the least.

That’s a relic from a time when readers and writers still thought they needed an excuse to have sex with a non-husband. Really, romance is just like any other form of media. It changes over the decades. Has tv changed in your lifetime? Yeah. So has romance.

Instead of a screwy billionaire who plays weirdo mind games, Flynn is a construction worker with a spartan apartment who is upfront about his desires and his romantic attraction to Laurel. There are no “walls” Laurel has to break through to reach Flynn’s vulnerable side; indeed, it’s Laurel who shrouds herself in…

Truly, was it so difficult to find young women who were either athletic or had dance training? The worst thing about them is their posture and movement.

Am I the only one for whom it just hadn't come up? We've talked about past relationships when it's actually relevant, but we've just never discussed it. I have been left to assume that he cares as little as I do. And we've been married ten years.

Well, there's also the fact that while Joan might like to think that Peggy shares her perspective on McCann and thus should be equally glad to escape, Peggy is in a very different situation. She is a generation younger, she is in creative, and she is not a bombshell. All these things position her to be able to…

It didn’t tell us anything we didn’t know about Ramsay or Theon in the books, either. I do not understand why people were fine with ADWD but this is just too much. The only differences are that so far, the TV show is far less brutal to Sansa than the books are to Jeyne, and people care about Sansa more than they cared…

I fully understand that it’s more upsetting because we know and care about Sansa. I just feel like this is getting framed like George had nothing to do with this. The Mary Sue declaring they’re no longer covering the show. I’m like, where were you when a 9th grader was on her knees promising Ramsay she’d fuck the dogs…

This is why I’m perturbed that this is all getting laid at the show’s door. It’s not like in the books this exactly thing happens, just to somebody else. Torture beyond what most people would think GRRM would portray against a kid is what happens in the books. Nobody twisted his work into something it isn’t here.

Yeah, I felt it was tastefully done while still making it clear what happened. Sansa agreed to the marriage. If they’d just cut away and not given us her cries and despair, we would’ve had to hear even more MRA types claiming she wanted it than we already are.

Let me be clear that I was disgusted by the storyline in ADWD and felt GRRM had gone too far. I just don’t care for this whole thing we’ve got going here where he’s getting excused simply because the character he did this to isn't on the show.

Oh, and let me also clarify that she isn’t 14 when she’s forced into prostitution. She’s 11, like Sansa. She’s 14 when she’s raped by dogs.

Ok. I just didn’t see anything from Peggy that indicated she liked the idea beyond being really flattered that Joan would ask, and Peggy has always been more interested in Joan’s friendship than vice versa. She was playing with the thought, but people play with the thought of leaving their field much more often than…

No one ever said she doesn’t want her name over the door of an advertising firm. Quitting to go work for Joan - with whom she doesn’t actually get along that great, and who presented the idea to her like Peggy was personally insulting her by even wanting to think about it a bit - doesn’t get her name over the door of…

I think Peggy’s nature is such that she prefers success at McCann, and she (intelligently) believes she can achieve that there. Peggy isn’t limited by age and appearance like Joan is. Peggy is hitting McCann at the right time in her life, and the right time in US history. Her story at McCann isn’t going to be what…

Then they should take issue with GRRM, because in his version, Sansa’s 14-yo bff is given by Cersei to Littlefinger, who throws her into his brothel where she services sadists who scar her with their whippings, and is then married off to Ramsay and raped by *two men* on her wedding night - an event that occurs during…