The Office was the worst with this. There is no way Michael Scott wasn't calling to check up on everybody on an hourly basis.

Kiernan Shipka deserves an Emmy. That is all.

"I am willfully misinterpreting your statement, therefore I win!"

1. Don't buy it. I even said that I can understand the impulse to want to see something horrific happen to someone, but that doesn't make it moral to espouse. There's a difference between me not shedding a tear when Fred Phelps died, and me praying for him to be raped.

I have several nieces and nephews that I'm very close with, and am mortified beyond belief at the thought of any pain coming to them. Believe me. I understand the impulse. Doesn't make it moral. And I guarantee you, we don't teach them "Rape is okay or even good as long as the victim really, really deserves it."

Imprisonment, maybe? But in general, no. Not really.

"Would you say the KILLING of Joffrey was justice?"

Every literary depiction of sex is either way too flowery and maudlin, trashy and euphemistic or pornographic. Of course, many/most real life sexual encounters are way too flowery and maudlin, trashy and euphemistic or pornographic. So I don't see the issue.

"Cuz I can think of a whole bunch of people who'd line up to watch Sandusky take a little of what he gave. "

"I do not agree that GRRM successfully made her sympathetic"

At the risk of quoting a Simpsons joke, I don't agree to that. Sincerely saying "rape can be justice" is literally the most vile thing I've heard on the Internet in a long, long time. And I read that "The author of this post should be raped" "joke" a few comments down.

Maybe? I didn't interpret it that way originally. There's clearly something fucked up about it, and maybe I was more willing to look past it because of the Jaime's redemption arc. But it's at the very least more complicated — she does say no, not here, but then enthusiastically guides him inside of her while saying…

Rape is not justice. Not even in Westeros.

The show's deviations from the source materials have been made for blindingly obvious reasons thusfar, and the reason for this change is pretty easy to see as well. In the next few seasons, the audience needs to have sympathy for Cersei. And since we can't get into her head, the directors decided to rape her, because…

Uh, that's still fucking rape. "She didn't say no to having sex with me! She just didn't want to do it right then! So you see judge, you can't convict me!"

Sure sounds like it. She kissed him, and then he got mad and fucked her all while she said "no no, stop, please" and wept. Totally ambiguous.

re: a) Ah, so when we're at a loss for developing a female character, let's rape her. That's good storytelling!

I absolutely felt that way about Ren and Stimpy, but for some reason, I never had a problem with Rocko.

The Gentleman Arachnid

Fuck it, we're going with Boutrous Boutrous-Ghali. NEXT JOKE.