As I've written before, I love Game of Thrones, the HBO series, which led me to the books http://lynnecoll.blogspot.com/2012/01/what-im-reading.html. Now I'm loving the books. But loving the series and the books doesn't mean I can't have any problems with them.
Last week I was discussing the first two books (A Game of Thrones and A Clash of Kings) with a man. I mentioned that I didn't like reading about all the rapes. First, he said there weren't many rapes; I disagreed. Then he asked, "What did you expect?"
I hate that response; it's pointless. I just wanted to give my opinion.
The other day I was reading some blogs and came across two posts about Game of Thrones, the series The first discusses the first season: http://opinionessoftheworld.com/2011/06/20/game-of-thrones-and-gender/. The second focuses on hope for less sexism in the second: http://www.btchflcks.com/2012/02/game-of-thrones-season-2-trailer-will.html
I agree it would be a nice change to read about a fantasy world that isn't steeped in sexism and misogyny. A comment on the first post by Eric N. Samuels expressed my misgivings about how one of the rapes is just mentioned in passing in A Clash of Kings. It shows how rape is accepted in Westeros.
Maybe if rape wasn't so accepted in our own culture, the Westeros culture wouldn't bother me as much.
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