In the annoying scene, Sansa meets Sandor Clegane (AKA The Hound) for the first time in years and also they review her decision not to vanish with him back in period 2, before she endured every little thing Ramsay Bolton placed her with, including rape.
Prior to she was adjusted and betrayed by that sinister little guy, Littlefinger. Prior to her entire tale arc differed the books as well as ended up being a waking problem.
The most up to date Game of Thrones episode was bad for women. The only continuing to be woman of colour, Misandei, shed her head. Brienne asked Jamie to remain by her side after they would certainly rested with each other, just to view him ride off into the night to find his diabolical sis. And Sansa Stark, Lady of the North, appeared to credit her rapists and abusers for making her into the tough, solid lady she is today.
«Without Littlefinger and also Ramsay and the rest, I would certainly’ve stayed a little bird all my life,» she claimed.
The implication is that the trauma of sexual assault assisted make Sansa the durable queen she has actually ended up being.
Fans, particularly women fans, have actually fasted to object to the implication that rape is character-building or that women have to be targets in order to locate their strength. Because she was raped; she is solid in spite of it, Sansa Stark is not strong. Her courage as well as resilience is entirely her very own and does not in any way come from the men who struck her.
Maybe one of the most famous fan to object to the return of Sansa’s rape storyline is Jessica Chastain. She tweeted: «Rape is not a tool to make a personality stronger. A woman does not require to be victimised in order to end up being a butterfly. The #littlebird was always a Phoenix. Since of her, her fundamental strength is exclusively. And her alone.»
We’re with Jessica on this. It’s irritating and also repugnant, to make use of rape as a story gadget to define a women character, and offensive to recommend that her abusers made her who she is.
The Game of Thrones show-runners are male— and also it shows. The authors are male— as well as it reveals. The supervisors are male— as well as it reveals. The visibility of a cardboard coffee was not the most outright thing performed in the latest episode; it was the noticeable absence of a women point of view in the writing of this impressive program.
As reporter Mo Ryan mentioned months earlier, the innovative leaders that work on Game of Thrones are overwhelmingly male. By the time we complete this season, the program will have aired 73 episodes. They have actually utilized 19 directors all up, just one of whom was a lady— and also she only routed 4 episodes, earlier on in the run. That’s five per cent of all GoT episodes guided by a woman. The last time a lady was attributed as a writer on Game of Thrones was 2013. We’ve just ever before had two women writers on the show.
AND. IT. SHOWS.
If even more women and people of colour had actually remained in the writers’ room on Game of Thrones, then maybe we would not have wound up with shallow, offending storylines for the women we’ve pertained to adore. Brienne, Misendai and also particularly Sansa deserve far better than this. Even Dany and Cersei be entitled to better than this.
This program has been conspicuously bereft of female influence right from the start. Just 2 weeks earlier, we were commemorating the knighting of Brienne, the conflict in between Dany as well as Sansa, and also the free love of one Arya Stark. Currently, we can just cross our fingers as well as wish things improve for our much-loved female personalities in the staying two episodes of one of the most questionable program on television.