‘Game of Thrones’ Accused of Promoting Rape Culture

[Self Inflicted Wounds]

Don't know why I'm getting involved.

No, actually you didn't. Murder culture is a thing. Many shows do promote it, though it's often more generally included with "culture of violence" which yes, we do have, yay wild west/civil war/revolutionary war roots.

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Rape being illegal doesn't mean a country doesn't have a rape culture. Rape culture is about how sexual violence against women is tolerated, denied, or promoted through language, actions, government and social interaction.

But most of the dips in this thread are just keyboard warriors and have no idea what they're talking about. There's a reason I'm 30k in debt for college and I don't have time to explain it in detail.

I went to college too, and guess what? I don't agree with you XD

[Tennis]

Get banned quickly please.

So your contribution to the thread topic is to tell the OP to get banned?

[enragedgorilla]

It shows murder,Dragons, Rape, murder murder murder,incest ,murder murder murder again, More dragons, huge roving armies , political back stabbing ...then real actual stabbing, ....more murder.

Almost like it is a Fantasy world...being entertainment for a 1-2...eventually 3rd world consumption.

Do you get what direction your social agenda is going to go from entertainment?

As far as I know, where I live...rape is NOT tolerated, it is detested,prosecuted heavily and shunned.
As far as I know...we get HBO here as well.

[Beazy]

What exactly is "Rape Culture" Tennisace?

[Schattenlied]

http://www.thewrap.com/game-of-thron...e-pornography/

How do you feel about this?
Is there enough control on these cable shows?

This is like saying Game of Thrones also promotes "murder culture" or some bullshit like that, it's a fucking TV show, and bad shit happens in it... It's rated R for a reason, deal with it.

[ramayana1423]

Don't know why I'm getting involved.

No, actually you didn't. Murder culture is a thing. Many shows do promote it, though it's often more generally included with "culture of violence" which yes, we do have, yay wild west/civil war/revolutionary war roots.

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Rape being illegal doesn't mean a country doesn't have a rape culture. Rape culture is about how sexual violence against women is tolerated, denied, or promoted through language, actions, government and social interaction.

But most of the dips in this thread are just keyboard warriors and have no idea what they're talking about. There's a reason I'm 30k in debt for college and I don't have time to explain it in detail.

No civilized country in the world promotes and accepts/tolerates violence against women. Rape culture is not a thing, it is made up bullshit. And what does being 30k in college debt have to do with anything? Also, you say that as if it's a lost most people graduate college with FAR more than that in debt. 30k isn't even considered expensive for a single year of college anymore so stop fucking whining.

[Skayth]

So . . .

Let me get this straight. We get a guy who gets castrated, one who gets his face crushed, one who gets poisoned, another who gets shot in the belly while taking a shit. We get a mother who's throat is slit after watching her son and daughter-in-law get stabbed to death months after her husband is beheaded. We get one guy gored by a bull. Another one stabbed multiple times in the belly (for the watch.) Another murdered by a shadow. We see men who have been flayed by the Boltons. A woman getting burnt to death. A man smothered. Another gets stabbed in the eyes before killed. A daughter poisoned. A boy thrown off a tower. A brother and sister fucking each other.

And people are upset over one, off-camera, rape scene. From a guy notorious for his cruelty.

if I could upvote, I would totally do this. It basically comes down to this.

[Deleted]

The era - being medieval europe, where in some cases the King even got first go at your new wife.

I take it you're the kind of guy whose education on mediaeval Europe comes primarily from Braveheart.

[Forgettable]

That NCOSE group doesn't have any credibility since they believe in "Rape Culture," whatever that is.

[schwarzkopf]

I take it you're the kind of guy whose education on mediaeval Europe comes primarily from Braveheart.

No, Braveheart came out decades after my first history education, I learned from actual books - these days you can google things. I suggest you do it sometimes.

[Slant]

http://www.thewrap.com/game-of-thron...e-pornography/

How do you feel about this?
Is there enough control on these cable shows?

There are hardly better ways to bring up the entire internet against you. I mean, why not attack the Pope, that's probably the only thing getting more opponents to your position. :P

[Moadar]

Ramsey tortures and kills people why would he do things like that but stop at the idea of raping someone?

Almost everyone in the show murders people but its ok for that but incest, rape, and prostitution is going too far?

[Tennis]

What exactly is "Rape Culture" Tennisace?

Rape culture is a term that was coined by feminists in the United States in the 1970's. It was designed to show the ways in which society blamed victims of sexual assault and normalized male sexual violence. Many feminists have provided great definitions of what rape culture is and how it plays out everyday.

[schwarzkopf]

Well it's based on a heavily dramatized and exaggerated caricature of medieval Europe.

'based' <-- that's the key word. Of course there weren't dragons in actual medieval Europe.

[Mehrunes]

Why is he spilling his secrets and motivations to his prostitutes though? Plus why is he micromanaging his brothels anyway? In the books (yeah I know, I'm that guy) brothels are just one of LF's many investments. He doesn't run brothels. So why did the show decide to make him a pimp in the first place? To show more boobs obviously. And there's nothing wrong with a bit of fan service, but it's a little grating when it's completely shoe-horned and squeezed into a show which has limited time to tell a huge tapestry of plot lines.

That said, nowadays I kind of long for the days of harmless gratuitous fanservice.

Not that I recall him spilling his secrets all that often, to prostitutes or anyone else, they already had the brothel for the scenes in season one where Ned and Catelyn met in secret. So they kept it. They used it for many other scenes too. But I guess rape culture trumps all.

[Beazy]

Rape culture is a term that was coined by feminists in the United States in the 1970's. It was designed to show the ways in which society blamed victims of sexual assault and normalized male sexual violence. Many feminists have provided great definitions of what rape culture is and how it plays out everyday.

Ok, give some examples of that in the US or Europe. Because if there is "rape culture" that women all over the world are "fighting", then you will have no problem flooding your reply with those examples.

And since this is a thread about Game of Thrones, could you point to a scene in the show where there is a female "being blamed" for her sexual assault or where its normalized?

[Theodarzna]

http://www.thewrap.com/game-of-thron...e-pornography/

How do you feel about this?
Is there enough control on these cable shows?

Absolutely the dumbest article under the sun.

[Mehrunes]

Those people are arguing about the in-universe appreciation of rape.
A tv-show with magic and dragons doesn't reflect reality. Who would have thought.

But muh rape culture! How can you deny it being true when you're denying it and denying rape culture is a symptom of rape culture?

[Hiricine]

How can you have a villain if they don't do bad things. Everyone realizes that people are murdered left and right on that show, the rape that happens really isn't the most heinous crime by comparison.

[Dellis0991]

How does watching a show leads to rape?