Warning: This post contains triggers of sexual assault and rape.
Spoilers to follow for “Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken” - Season 5 episode 6 of Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones is a show that has pushed the boundaries plenty of times over the last five seasons and the grim conclusion to episode six is a boundary pushed too far.

The show has had a long standing women’s problem - not in the sense that women are often portrayed as weak, pathetic Mary Sue’s but rather as frequent victims of unnecessary male violence. At the very beginning of season one, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss transformed a consensual sex scene between Daenerys and Khal Drogo into rape. The same transformation was repeated in season four between Jaime and Cersei Lannister, when Cersei was raped by her own brother over the corpse of her son.

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