shipperx ([identity profile] shipperx.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] shadowkat 2011-10-04 06:45 pm (UTC)

Well, there's the Boltons, I suppose. Roose straight-up admits to having raped his bastard's mother but that's past history. And the Bastard Bolton is, in any other world, a sadistic serial killer. He definitely tortured and raped. And I don't remember how much was shown vs. told around regarding the fake Arya married to him, but... yeah. On the other hand, he's a sadistic serial killer with men too. And what he's shown doing to a male character is every bit as horrific, so as horrible as the Bastard Bolton is, writing-wise it didn't come off as sexist. Horrifying? Definitely, but a horror to humanity not simple misogyny. We're supposed to think of the bastard Bolton to be a sadistic serial-killing monster who needs to be put down like a dog and yay to any character who can do it.

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