RE: Game of Thrones Season 5 Discussion [SPOILERS WITHIN]
May 22, 2015 at 12:50 pm
(This post was last modified: May 22, 2015 at 12:51 pm by Regina.)
I think that's true. It's why I don't understand some of the feminist critique about the show being "sexist". It is sexist, but there's context to it, it's heavily influeced by medieval European culture which was a deeply sexist and homophobic culture, and where gory brutality was commonplace. It wouldn't make sense to have every character in the show being chivalrous and benign. Scenes like that (while disturbing) are what show some characters for the monsters they are. It could also be educational in a perverse way, by showing us a model of a society we definitely don't want to live in, or even idealize.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
