Thread by @gabalexa

Women were shut out of writing/directing jobs for EVERY EPISODE of this season of #GameOfThrones. So while I love that we feel empowered by certain female characters, women should've written them. Particularly for characters who were sexually abused.
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Like, even if it wasn't deeply triggering, knowing that men wrote that Sansa's character is grateful for her rape would ruin it for me. Cishet men have the most power from an intimate justice standpoint. What do they know about a woman being 'strengthened' by sexual trauma?

And how low is the bar if we're celebrating a show's feminism but all of its writers and directors are cis men?

"You can see from Sansa’s view that Jon went to meet with this southern queen who burned her grandfather and uncle alive and suddenly Jon bent the knee to her. She’s also very pretty, and how much does that factor in?" -- a #got writer explaining why Sansa doesn't trust Dany LOL.

It's not ~*~feminist~*~ to write a character who decides that her brother's political decisions are influenced by another woman's looks bc this assumption results in automatic distrust for pretty women? Ugh.

So if Dany arrived ugly, Sansa might be more trusting? ... where is the feminism, I don't see it. #gameofthrones

Someone pointed out that there was actually 1 woman credited for 3 episodes! 1 out of 7 is not great. The season is longer than 3 episodes. And she didn’t write last night’s episode, which is the one that we are specifically saying needed female writers.

But idw obscure her accomplishments so I will say: many women were shut out of the majority of this season + none wrote last night’s episode, which is prob why the female characters were all behaving out of character. Suddenly. Out of nowhere. 😂