Nobody read this blog but I needed to get this out of my system. After Time published this I got tired of not seeing the real problem being addressed.
Another piece gets it wrong. The real problem with the outrage over last weeks rape scene is why the backlash exists in this instance and not in a multitude of others. Where was the outrage when Joffrey has a prostitute abused and violently sodomize another prostitute, at gun (crossbow) point? When a man had enslaved his entire family, all women, for purpose of sex (killing any male child born to his wife and daughters) and then that whole family of women became the sex slaves to murderous and depraved members of the Nights' Watch and continuously abused and raped; where was the outrage? Well, those women are from the lower classes; are prostitutes, the Game of Thrones equivalent of "hicks" inbred and poor. But have a high class (read upper class), white, virgin suffer the same and look out! The internet is aflame; politicians and bloggers are running around rubbing dirt in their hair. Take your hypocritical, righteous, indignation and shove it. If the "last straw" for you was this you might be a classist prick, and maybe even a little bit racist. In my unqualified opinion of course. /rant.
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