pukelman

I think it's more an expression of what people want from that character. Sansa is one of our main POV Stark characters and she has spent five of the show's aniticipated seven seasons getting raped, imprisoned, bullied and kicked around. VIewers are just TIRED of it. Yes, people do expect an arc to a dramatic story and they do expect their protagonists to, at some point, get some agency and start moving forward under their own steam. Sansa, in the show, is just not a well-written character. I don't think it's all that controversial to state this. Her character depiction is uninspiring, directionless and inconsistent.

You act as if they're making a documentary. They SCRIPTED these events. They chose to depict a rape at the end of last episode, and then use all of Sansa's time in this episode to dwell on her bruises, weeping, misery, helplessness. They have chosen to make this Sansa's story for the season. This is why it's offensive. They've turned one of the major show characters into another (needless) expression of 'Ramsay is a psycho'. They simply would not do this with e.g. Tyrion or Jaime. Can you honestly say Sansa has played any part in this season that is not secondary to Littlefinger or Ramsay's stories? Do we have any idea what she really wants, plans, thinks? Her scenes are all simply reaction scenes. You don't have to be a feminist conspiracy theorist to be disappointed that they've chosen the shock value of rape and violence against women over an actual storyline with characterisation, plot, motivation etc. And good Lord, following that immediately with Gilly's rape? It's starting to look like fetishism.

Can this show get any more misogynistic? What do we need after the much-maligned Sansa rape? Why, we need Sansa telling us she's being routinely raped now and begging for help, followed by Gilly virtually raped (and then bewilderingly horny - she must be into it, amirite?), followed by meaningless sexualisation of Tyene in a scene that focussed more on her tits than her face..