Because studios like Marvel and writers like Cargill are boring, and so afraid.

The same goes for the idea that Taiwan is independent. When I was in China studying I witnessed otherwise intelligent, perceptive, thoughtful people descend into utter nationalism at the mere idea that Taiwan might be a different country and that it might have the right of self-determination.

Great points. It really is a no win situation. It’s not “you can’t please everyone” any longer. It has become “everyone’s just going to bitch anyway no matter what we do”.

But come on: here’s a country of one billion people who you see as so powerful that you’ll change a character’s ethnicity to fit your perceptions of their taste, but who you also see as so incredibly stupid that merely “acknowledging that Tibet is a place” will render them so apoplectic with politicized rage that…

None of the Dornish characters are real people. They just show up and say a quip in that Spaghetti Western Franco Nero accent of theirs and do something horrible

I thought the Sand Snakes loved their family in the books. It wasn’t just Arianne they were devoted to, was it?

Other than this recap I haven’t even seen anyone excited about the girlpower aspect. It’s so hollow and pandering.

Exactly. I would have had more appreciation for this plot line and these characters had they established from the beginning that Ellaria was seeking power via a coup because she and many other common people didn’t like how the Martells ruled and she used Oberyn to get herself there. That I could respect, huge if a…

“We don’t murder little girls in Dorne”

Agree about Sand Snakes. Are we supposed to be cheering for them? Because they come across as rash, immature, hypocritical idiots to me. Totally against what Oberyn would have wanted.

Mhm YEP. Fucking thank you. The whole point of the Sand Snakes (and Oberyn, and the Dornish in general) is that they’re NOT child murderers and shit. I mean, that very ethos is what gives us one of the best exchanges in the show:

I guessed that Melisandre was Vanessa from the Little Mermaid and secretly an old lady in Season 2. Or the witch from Stardust. Go me!

Dorne doesn’t even have much of an army, to speak of. It is the weakest of the seven kingdoms except for the Iron Islands. Their people just don’t know that. And the Crown hasn’t been depleting their armies. Tywin ended the war against the North in a way to kill the fewest number in order to avoid doing so. And they…

I don’t think I’ve hated any characters on this show more than the Sand Snakes.

Sure thing. Like you said. Surrounded by white people where he is the most comfortable.

Why would he drop out? Superdelegates aside, Sanders and Clinton are neck and neck. If anyone should drop out, it should be Kasich. I have no idea why “the little politician that could” is still in the race at this point.

I haven’t seen one. So . . .

Do you seriously think Hillary Clinton is the only woman qualified to be president of the US?

Thank you. I think a lot of poly people here are misguided in their defense of these fucks. All the poly folks I know agree on terms, but usually those terms are equal. This situation is not the same. These women were pretty much all raised and brainwashed with polygamous mormon ideals. You constantly see them getting…

I pretty much agree with you. I think there are a few issues with the practice when it’s conducted as part of a religion grounded in Mormonism. Many of the Mormon-based polyg families are made up of women (sometimes disturbingly young women) married to men who insist on absolute obedience. Warren Jeffs was only one in…