hollis (they/them) currently studying classics and archaeology.
whilst everyone’s getting pumped for season 5, I think we need to remember a couple of things
- don’t forget lady stoneheart. don’t forget that the show runners actively decided to cut one of the most powerful character arcs of the book and force her, instead, into the nagging mother stereotype
- don’t forget arianne martell. don’t forget that it looks like the show runners actively decided to cut a powerful, feminine, kick ass woman of colour, who was next in the line of succession
- don’t forget that her storyline was all about liberating myrcella and crowning her under dornish law, where women have the same inheritance rights as men, and aren’t passed over in favour of their younger male siblings. don’t forget that her entire storyline focused on females empowering other females.
- don’t forget that it looks like they’re giving that same storyline to her younger male sibling, who they have gone out of their way to age up so he fits the role, and the story will now probably be “dashing young prince-to-be kidnaps damsel in distress”
- don’t forget the jamie/cersei rape scene. don’t forget that the show runners actively made the decision to change the story and make that scene include rape.
- don’t forget that mance rayder had a wife called dalla, and that she had a sister called val and that they were both important leading characters in jon’s story. don’t forget that the show runners actively made the decision to cut them out.
- don’t forget the totally unnecessary changes to bran’s storyline. don’t forget the fact that rape and abuse just became part of the background set for most of those scenes. don’t forget that the show runners were on set, actively deciding that those scenes needed a little more male on female violence in the background.
- don’t forget that natalia tena wanted osha to have a pubic wig because when the fuck would a wildling women shave her vagina and the show runners actively told her that wasn’t allowed.
- don’t forget that they created a female character just to serve as a frequently nude prostitute, and that when the actress, esme bianco, refused to do any more nude scenes, the show runners fired her
- don’t forget that she was then killed off in the most sexually violent, brutal, and demeaning way possible
- don’t forget chataya and alayaya, a mother and daughter who were strong, sexual, and unashamedly so, and ran their own brothel. don’t forget that the show runners cut them out, too. don’t forget that the show runners have no problem with sex and prostitution so long as it’s on a man’s terms, and as soon as women are making the decisions, they don’t like it.
- don’t forget that this show we love and watch and support perpetually goes out of its way to instigate violence against women, to take away their agency, their character, their rights, and their abilities. don’t forget that the show runners consciously make the decisions to demean women and use them as a way to dress the set. don’t forget that they take stories from women and give them to the men. don’t forget that they do not support and respect women the way we support and respect their show.
i still occasionally get anons asking me why i don’t watch this show any more - and this is why. i don’t think the books were feminist masterpieces in any way and i don’t really like george rr martin, but the racist, misogynistic and sexist direction this show has gone in disgusts me.
i don’t mind other people watching at all, but please don’t tell me to get over myself or stop being a killjoy etc. when i say that i don’t like it any more.
not to mention she “forgot” this girl’s name. and in every photo of her growing up she was only shown with white girls because they “weren’t that close"
so basically shes trying to fucking tell me that once she went to school with a black girl. so it’s ok that she can teach her fucking kids that "jesus wasn’t dark skinned. he was the son of god, so he was white and not dirty like the other people there” or refuse to let my brother invite his friend over, because he’s dark skinned and “might come back with his dad one night and take our jewelry”
my mom is a huge racist and it’s fucking sickening b/c if it wasn’t for the internet i would have believed her toxic shit for a while longer b/c she actually told us this crap growing up. she explained this to my little sister when she was five. im fucking sick of her bullshit.
my mom says shit like “annoying ch*nks” “greedy/stupid jews” “dirty blacks” “greasy illegal mexicans” but it’s ok because she was fucking nice to a black girl thirty years ago. she can say shit like “only whites should run the country” and “i wish slavery came back so i could afford a maid for this house” and “they should throw all the terrorists [muslim people] on a boat and ship them off somewhere else.” but it’s ok. she wasn’t terrible to a black girl once so she gets a fucking excuse.
If you don’t like white people, get the fuck out of our countries. I bet you’ll change your tune pretty quickly when you’re in the shithole that is Africa/India/Mexico/etc.
You benefit from white culture, you insufferable fucks.
“our countries”
