To those whose response to the news about Emilia Clarke being pressured to do nude scenes in GoT takes the form of “If you don’t like the mud, don’t roll around with the pigs”…let me tell you a secret. 
It’s not much of a secret. You would know it already if you were a woman, or if you had listened to more women in your life.
Here it is: Pigs are everywhere.
Also mud.
Everywhere.
Here it is: Pigs are everywhere.
Also mud.
Everywhere.
You can justify your lack of empathy for any woman working anywhere in the world the same way.
She could be angling for a promotion on Wall Street (of course high-rolling executives are abusive risk-takers; what did she expect?) or waiting tables (customers are gross, duh!).
She could be angling for a promotion on Wall Street (of course high-rolling executives are abusive risk-takers; what did she expect?) or waiting tables (customers are gross, duh!).
She could be trying to get a college degree (male professors surrounded all day long by young women—it’s just human nature) or working as a maid in a hotel (everyone knows what goes on in hotels—all those beds!).
Exploitation, manipulation, and abuse of power are ubiquitous realities. There’s nowhere on earth you can go to be free of it—and the more any place, culture, or institution touts itself as a bastion of dignity and virtue, the harder we should all examine its credentials.
BTW. If you watch movies or TV? You’re contributing to demand for “mud.” Yes, women have a choice, but so do you, and if you’re paying for it—and you are, one way or another—you don’t get to shrug your shoulders about what goes on there as if it had nothing to do with you.
