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Ok real quick THIS is the problem I have with the show. “ItS jUsT fIcTiOn” tell that to the actresses that have to go through this
i feel pretty stupid for thinking that the actresses weren’t affected by their roles in this show just because they knew they were acting. like what did it say to them that those were the roles they had to play that’s so horrible
This is why I don’t watch this kind of garbage.
“But as far as sci-fi and fantasy, I love that genre because there are so many things you can do, like rip someone’s tongue out of their throat and get away with it and rape beautiful women,” - Jason Momoa
Not to distract from the topic at hand, but I hope everyone extends the same sympathy to porn actors as well and realise how far more damaging porn can be to the mental well being of the women acting in the poem film.
yes! Weirdly GoT criticisms peaked me even though I’m not a fan of the show & have avoided watching it - I read the articles about Hannah waddingham being waterboarded …. And I told my friend who is a diehard GoT stan and she was like oh right well her character deserved it because (fictional) reasons… I said no I mean she ACTUALLY got waterboarded. my friend was shocked bc the scene in the show is like less than 2 minutes long. and it made me realize I had those justifications ready for porn actors as well. 100%. at this point I genuinely believe every facet of living in society is just a meta Stanford Prison Experiment.
“Waddingham said the original scene was meant to be even more tortuous, with Unella being raped by Gregor Clegane, a.k.a. the Mountain (Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson). “I think they’d had so many complaints about the rape of Sansa [Sophie Turner] that they chose not to go with it,” she said. “Unbelievably, they changed it quite at the last minute. I think they possibly changed it when I was mid-air flying to Belfast because suddenly I got sent these new sides that said I would need a wetsuit top. I thought they’d sent me the wrong bits.
(…)
Apparently they hadn’t, and when Waddingham arrived on set, she was indeed outfitted with a wetsuit. “They were like, ‘Oh, it’s going to be waterboarding instead,’” she recalled. “And I was like, ‘But we’re not actually doing waterboarding.’ And they were like, ‘No, no, no, we are.’"Waddingham said she was bound to the wooden table in the scene with “proper big straps” for hours as Cersei (Lena Headey) poured wine into her face. “Definitely other than childbirth, [it] was the worst day of my life,” she said. “Lena was uncomfortable pouring liquid in my face for that long, and I was beside myself. But in those moments, you go, ‘Do you serve the piece and get on with it?’ Or do you chicken out and go, ‘This isn’t what I signed up for.’”
When Waddingham returned to the hotel that
night, she said she was unable to speak above a whisper and had “bruises
already coming up like I’d been attacked.”
Filming
the scene had a lingering impact on her. “It definitely gave me
claustrophobia around water,” she said. “It’s quite full on being
waterboarded for 10 hours — and then, for only one minute and 37 seconds
to be used on camera.”
Waddingham was driven by the creators’ desire for authenticity and her
trust in the production team. “I didn’t want the strap tight around my
neck, but as they pointed out if the camera can see you lifting your
head up to save yourself, that’s not authentic,” she said. “As [GOT
co-creator] Dan Weiss pointed out, he came up and said, ‘Look, in the
script it says Cersei empties the remainder of her glass of red wine to
wake up Unella. People aren’t going to think that’s enough. That is not
enough retribution for Cersei. It needs to be three-quarters full or so —
if we can cheat it, even more — of a carafe of wine.’ The one thing I
kept thinking to myself was the production company aren’t going to let
you die, so get on with it, be uncomfortable.”
So they changed it last minute (not giving her time to prepare), and used an actual act of torture on her, which had psychological and physical consequences… This has to be illegal, right?!
Remember when Alex Graves told an UNDERAGE Sophie Turner that she was getting a “love interest” in the next season… and that turned out to be Ramsay’s the man her character was married to and raped by repeatedly.
They had no problem torturing the women on the set of the show.
Also remember how they had Esme Bianco, a domestic violence survivor, doing a bunch of gross, degrading scenes, and when she finally protested she was fired and her character killed off in the most brutal, sexualized, undignified way possible.
If you tell people their attraction to men is a “curse” or “unfortunate” or “bad” etc think about this instead:
men are pretty
No they’re not. Women and nonbinary people are pretty. Men, most of the time arent. (I’m sorry men)
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you know wat I change my mind go fuck yourself
you personally not finding men attractive doesn’t mean you get to be an asshole to queer men and call our attraction wrong and insult our bodies. fuck off idiot
This cultural attitude that so many people seem to have where they assert that people that they’re not personally attracted to are ugly is something I want to launch a nuclear missile at.
terfs idealize a form of femininity that is a white supremacist’s wet dream. they make fun of “TIMs” as men masquerading as women as evidenced by their broad shoulders, wigs, narrow hips, facial and body hair, musculature and even bone structure (phrenology, anyone?) as if those aren’t the very same characteristics i see on my indigenous and black cis aunties, mothers, and sisters. if you are not white, lithe, and barely hairy you will never fit into their idea of womanhood! the same rhetoric that excludes and polices trans women is a threat to all women of color, cis or trans.
terf ideology is incapable of examining the multitude of relationships we have to girlhood, womanhood, and motherhood because it is an ideology fueled and sharpened by white supremacy. it is an ideology with a terminal and suicidal end if you are not white.
remember that time a TERF looked at 4 CIS women and decided they were secretly men bc they were OLYMPIC ATHLETES WHO WERE RIPPED AF? not to mention, Chinese, who have different facial structures and body types from white people.
