Game of Thrones Can Go Fuck Itself; Or, Why Rape Is Different From Other Onscreen Violence | Bryn Donovan
All storytelling and other communication happens in a context, and Game of Thrones is part of a culture in which sword fighting, torture, and dismemberment are rare, while rape is all too common. In this context, extensive depictions of rape that serve little narrative purpose are shitty.
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Tags: got spoilers, GoT, it's not that rape occurs in the fictional world that bothers me, it's the way it is contextualized, via dramatization choices that are rooted in and comment on, our own world, and I increasingly feel like those choices are, in a word, shitty.
