So when can we start holding the models responsible for this stupid shit?

Predators intentionally seek out those who are already vulnerable and victimized. It's a shit world.

I think she's about to murder Uncle Fester.

I've heard this from a lot of people too. In places where they are the minority, Mormons tend to be very nice. When they have the power, they are mad with it. The legislation they have passed in my state is sickening.

Unfortunately, she's also a veteran, so I'm worried that any critique will just get me accused of aiding and abetting the terrorists.

What part of Wyoming did you grow up in? I grew up in Pinedale (about 80 miles southwest of the bourgeois playground Jackson Hole) and there were almost no Mormons. Now I live in southeast Idaho, and they are everywhere. People who encourage tolerance towards Mormons obviously have never had to live in a place where…

Oh, Lily. I thought you were better than that.

This is the first I am hearing of it. He said that? Huh. Well, I do know some women who like rough sex, but I don't know many women who would call what happened to Dany on the show not-rape. I'm not sure how much those two groups overlap.

Let's just take a deep breath and try to remember that we're discussing fictional people in fictional settings. These characters do not live in the same world that we do or have the same values. You can certainly interpret these stories through a post-modern lens and find problematic themes, but that doesn't mean you…

It disturbed me as well. I chalked it up to our media's disgusting habit of eroticizing rape, but your explanation also makes sense. I still don't think it was necessary. Dany's own brother has just sold her like chattel to a man she does not know and whose language she does not speak. The ways of the Dothraki are…

Ideally, you should both watch the show and read the books to get the full effect. There are the things in the book that are not in the show, obviously, but there are also things in the show that are not in the book that are equally awesome. Khal Drogo not bothering to obtain enthusiastic consent from Dany is an…

I can see what you're saying. I guess I interpreted the pedophilia as values that reflect a harsher world where people have much shorter average lifespans- like medieval Europe or something. All armies are bands of marauding rapists and murderers, can't really argue that. I don't particularly care for the militant…

Okay, I'll bite; what's squicky about it? The Dothraki are no squickier than anyone else in the book, and a hell of a lot less squicky than some (looking at you, House Bolton). Plus, I kind of dig their nomadic equestrian society.

If it makes you feel better, in the books he is not a rapist.

Maybe your presence is intimidating to these creeps, so they keep looking around for someone who seems a bit more vulnerable.

Personally, I love makeup. Love it. There's just something about standing in front of my vanity with my tools and brushes and rouges and powders all lined up that makes me feel powerful, creative and feminine. What I do not love is feeling obligated to do this for the rest of the world, or that women who do not feel…

You're right, it does look extremely painful. It's like her stomach skin is being stretched over the fake boobs. That's not supposed to happen.

Her breasts are kinda freaking me out. It's like they are taking over her entire torso.

I don't know. I'm kind of a misanthrope, and I love dogs.