The Catholic Church did not control Europe but it had spritual authority in Europe.

She really always had a black and white view of morality - people were either loyal to her/friends or disloyal/enemies. There was no room in her worldview for gray, complexity, or human failing. This really stood out to me when she discovered Jorah spied on her. She had no empathy or understanding of his situation at…

A) Im always amused by this. There is this new trend of “A-HA! you’ve activated my ‘fuck off’ programming with (a word i’ve heard people say). I will now stop talking to you.“. (List of words expands every day, possibly into the dozens or hundreds). You’re only choosing to intellectually isolate yourself meng. But…

You’ve disqualified yourself with the second word you used. Please don’t waffle about “accuracy” if your real complaint is that academia doesn’t pander to your own ideology. All the more when you can’t be arsed to do even the most minuscule homework of your own and suggest a self-professed “professional actor,…

not only that, but Daenerys has had some paranoia since season 1 that has only been increasing. similar to Aerys, who wasn’t always mad, but his increasing paranoia eventually did make Rhaegar want to get his father off the throne.

*applauds*

Yeah I went in with a sympathetic ear but like... There are way too many inaccuracies which provoked the never fun essay length refutation of a number of points.

Right?

Westros has seasons that last for years, zombies, witches, and sentient trees; just like England.

It really must be racism. Even if it's true that there were battles in European history where no non-white people were involved, why limit yourself? Aside from teaching some contemporary history outside the setting and perhaps even some tolerance it's a great opportunity to work on a unique character model instead of…

Oh, I read the article, and while there’s some merit to the idea that the march into civilization coincided with a devaluation of women (one can find evidence that “less advanced” tribal cultures are more likely to be matriarchal,) I strongly disagree that the actual conditions for most women were better in the…

Given that the writing staff of Game of Thrones has been entirely male since about Season 2, I believe, and I was pretty much quoting Ellis verbatim in that particular passage, I think perhaps you doth protest too much, and too loudly.

I once saw a tv-doc about the examination of a skeleton from a Christian graveyard, and the man was African and probably came back from The Crusades with a local lord. He was given the burial of a gentleman, and while the scholars said he would have been unusual, he would not have been completely alien to the people. 

This article is kinda disingenuous though. The author claims that the medieval times were not sexist because women could own land and wealth, yet goes on to say that they only could do this if there was no male heir available. Meanwhile in GoT, female characters were able to obtain power on their own, so the author…

non-white characters near the end were just murderous barbarians

Considering GoT takes place in some fantasy-realm (I mean, Westeros and King’s Landing and all that other shit isn’t SUPPOSED to be in jolly ole’ England, is it?), that excuse is even more dumb.

I like the part where we’re claiming that there aren’t any powerful females in the Victorian era considering who it’s named after. :D

I think you’re confused, everyone is supposed to be criticizing GoT since season 8, episode 4.

Maybe you were frozen in ice or something, in that case it’s okay, but you need to get on the bandwagon or you’ll risk getting labelled unmutual.

Women had no vote, no property, and no identity in the 19th century

I’ve always considered there to be an unspoken “we don’t want to deal with thorny questions of race and identity” behind the lack of people of color in medieval dramas.