#game of thrones controversy

anyway the arya stark discourse has nothing to do with ‘sexualizing children,’ y’all are just mad that an unmarried couple had sex. 

nobody had a problem with a 16 year old dany being married off to a grown adult war lord against her will and then raped by her new husband on screen.

nobody had a problem with that old creep north of the wall who marries and fucks all his (eerily young looking) daughters.

nobody had a problem with ramsay bolton raping sansa the night of their wedding while theon was forced to stand in the corner and watch.

like don’t pull the ‘but think of the children!’ card now. don’t pretend your issue is with the sexualization of children. it’s not. you’re all perfectly fine with on screen depictions of children being raped as long as they’re married to the guy who’s doing it. you’re just mad that fictional high fantasy characters don’t share your creepy twisted views about marriage, abstinence, gender roles, and consent.

and by the way, arya’s canonically 18 this season. she’s not even a child. like you’re literally more offended by an adult woman instigating consensual sex because it’s ~sinful~ than you are by the concept of child marriage and rape. i don’t know how to explain to you that that’s fucked up beyond belief.