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  • Yes, Of Course That Was Rape on Last Night’s Game of Thrones

    04/21/2014 3:11:56 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 46 replies
    New York Magazine ^ | 4/21/14 | Margaret Lyons
    [This post contains spoilers from last night's GoT.] Game of Thrones has been a rape-heavy show from very early on. And it hasn't exactly been progressive in its take on sexual violence — Daenerys falls in love with her rapist, for example. But last night's rape scene, in which Jaime assaults his sister Cersei inches away from their dead son's body, is a new low for the deeply violent series, because the scene was rewritten from the book to recast the sex as not consensual, and yet the show's cast and crew aren't even sure whether it constitutes rape. "It...