CMV: The outrage over the planned HBO show 'Confederate' is not reasonable

Rape is in game of thrones. It's in history. The sugar coating or pleas for redemption arcs around it are irrelevant to the reality of historic rape. Most victims in the past did not get justice or redemption. Showing that is not "fetishising or casualizing rape.". It's showing it as it is. A terrible thing.

I like this paragraph a lot. This IS what they should do if they're gonna do it at all. And it's handled more like this in the books, with regards to Cersei/Robert, and other times when she's raped. My issue is this is not how the show runners handled it. Instead of saying that this is true to the world they created, they just went "It isn't rape."

This doesn't bode well for how they'll handle of the situations that will inevitably come from a show about slavery. If they don't think it's rape when someone explicitly says "No!" how do you think it's going to be in the more ambiguous situations of a power differential? A slave may never refuse their master out of fear, but I think we both agree how horrible of a thing that is.

I think given the history of GoT, people can be rightly worried about the portrayal in Confederate. With GoT you have a bit of leeway because it's fiction, but with the new show it's based on real life atrocities, and that makes things 10 times harder.

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