Also from Bitch is a roundup of great new comics, some I’m familiar with (On Loving Women, Over Easy), some that I really want to read (Pregnant Butch, The Encyclopedia of Early Earth), and all worth checking out.
So. You’ve all probably seen, or at least heard about, last week’s Game of Thrones episode, “Breaker of Chains.” I’m pretty upset about the show taking ambiguously consensual sex scenes from the books (due to unreliable narrators) and making them even less consensual, and a lot has been written on the subject in the last week. The Mary Sue has a great roundtable discussion that outlines exactly why the scene is so uncomfortable, the less-than-stellar response from the director, and why it’s so damaging to have media reinforce the idea that no doesn’t actually mean no.
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