Al Jazeera is fearlessly independent...right up until the Qatari royals involved. Then it clams up tighter than Fox News on Republican graft.

Bolton fucking sucks and part of me kinda wished he would maybe be nice to Sansa and just be a garbage human to everyone else, but alas...

Besides her grandmother*, Margaery might be the only woman in Westeros to be married 3 times (Renly, Joffrey, Tommen) and not raped once.

I was totally rooting for Tyrion and Sansa in the books. Neither of them wanted it, but I thought they could have made a good team. He seemed like the only one to see her as a person and certainly the only one to treat her with any respect. And he didn’t blame her for not being thrilled with the marriage. I thought…

How can a forced marriage with the bride age 13 possibly be consensual? I get that everyone wants to view the book scenes (and I’m including the Cersei/Jaime scene here — count how many times she says no in the book) as consensual, but they’re really debatable.

Yeeeessssss!!! I believe in you!

She was a child sold to him for an army. It may have been tender, but it was still rape. Not to mention all the times he raped her after the wedding, left her in pain and suicidal. She grew to love him anyway, which I always disliked about the books.

That’s so terrifying because think of the logistics of moving forward!!! If I was suddenly fired and locked out of my work email with zero notice, I’d be so fucked. All the professional connections I’d hope to stay in touch with (their contact info), my calendar (I put personal things on my work calendar because why…

I know! I don't understand why the writers keep using rape as a plot device when it's totally weird and unnecessary especially because enough terrible stuff happens in the books w/out added trauma.

The actors actually didn’t feel they could pull it off as a consensual scene- she was being sold, and the character was only 14 IIRC. The relationship does evolve.

She was 13 and was sold off to Drogo for an army. She had no choice in the wedding or the consummation, so I’m not sure I’d consider it consensual regardless of how it was written.

...as consensual as having a sex with a 13 year old can get I guess?

Yes! These roses have thorns.

You know, it’s been a while? But I feel like she said ‘No’ a few times, and also, she’s maybe 13 in the books? IDk, color me crazy. I might be remembering incorrectly.

I know, I remember being so sad bc it was so beautiful and could have been the wedding Sansa really deserved, if only she were marrying the dashing young saint she deserves to have.

Here she is, at least from wedding #1! I’m leaving this huge. Highly recommend the whole blog post with greater details shown.

Yeah, but this kind of behavior is rampant throughout the American media industry. It’s not a Muslim thing or a “that region of the world” thing at all — hell, it reads like a treatment for an unaired episode of “Mad Men.”

Where’s Margaery?! She wasn’t outwardly miserable (because she’s a boss bitch who is playing the Lannisters and will get what she wants), but I think her and her cleavage enhancing dresses deserve some mention don’t you?

The wedding between Sansa and Ramsay would’ve been 1000% more awesome if that fur stole had come with a hood shaped like dire wolf’s head...which Sansa could’ve slipped on in order to warg out and tear out his guts with her wolf teeth afterward.

Incompetent, dysfunctional, and sexist? And people thought that Al Jazeera wouldn’t be able to fit in with the rest of the American news media!