Yeah, I'm going to criticize the hell out of a piece of entertainment I consume for how they depict rape and use rape as a trope that, for as much "sense" it makes for the in-universe justifications, is lazy and derivative of the people running the show. Because it's 2015, believe it or not, if a lady-show like…

So, is that a "that's how it happened back then" argument as well?

Hey, as long as you concede it's GoT's dark world, rather than historically accurate circumstances, we'll have far less to battle over.

Well, to those who made a point of making an article about not covering the show anymore, when you have a site that trades in gender politics and PoV, it is sort of a political stance. How can you say you're against certain things if you're endorsing a show that trades in it in a relatively lax manner?

Gotta pick and choose those battles, bro. It's a thing I've heard from people who are hardcore book snobs, and believe it or not, I dn't quite fall into that territory.

Believe it or not, while I might fight a certain plot point or narrative choice to death, I didn't quite crow about how "No one will watch Game of Thrones/its doomed." I just asked that people who were bitching about people not watching the show…jut not make such a huge deal people choosing to…not watch it.

…okay.

She was born and bred to be raped on her wedding night? And the show was formed and contrived for the sake of showing Sansa being brutally raped on her wedding night?

Well, obviously if we have actors of a certain calibur who happen to be white, and they would do so good in this role, which necessitates being PoC - whose status as a PoC can't be simply be whitewashed, why not put them in blackface? It makes narrative sense for this person to be black, but since we can't find an…

I like rape when it's given weight and significance. If anything, the past few episodes have proved how insignificant the act was to Sansa's storyline. However much it is you claim it is consistent for Ramsay to rape Sansa, it was a decision made the show runners to put Sansa in the situation to be raped in the first…

He was too expensive for the show/having Barristan Selmy would undercut Tyrion or something.

Yeah, I thought about it too.

Oh, but you see, now that she's been rape, she can get really mad! And if we disagree even in the slightest, we have have A(genda) V(iewing) issues.

Except it's been only as high as this season goes, which has seen a decline?

RAPE IMPROVES EVERYTHING.

He can dog-paddle!

Yeah, like Barristan Selmy - oops. Nevermind.

I"m not sure Unella is a Silent Sister

And regarding Sansa tolerating Ramsay - Winterfell is her home. These are the people that killed her family. This isn't Catelyn trading one brother for another. Do we really think if they treated her well, she would excuse it?

Unsullied is slang for people who haven't read the books.