Hey Girls, Don't Like Icky Sword Fighting? The NYT Says There's Enough Sex In "Game Of Thrones" To Keep Our Teeny Female Brains Entertained.
By Joanna Robinson | Posted Under Miscellaneous | Comments (130)
Reading is, like, so gross in general, right? All that squinting and forming the words aloud has GOT to be giving me wrinkles. So, duh, of COURSE I didn’t read “Game of Thrones,” or any of those other silly fantasy novels. Have you seen them? They’re so…bulky, how would they ever fit in my cute Chanel clutch? Plus, there is NOTHING in there that is going to teach me to be a skinny bitch, explain why men insist on speaking Martian to me all the time, or outline twelve days to a GOOP-ier me.
So, like, you can imagine my total shock and horror when Brad (cute Brad from Accounting, not pervy Brad from the Mail Room) asked me to come over and watch this “Game of Thrones” thingie on HBO with him this Sunday. Like, what if I fell asleep, you guys? Swords and made-up languages and, like, weird creatures that are NOT hot vampires that sparkle? Gag me with my Pinkberry spoon. But then, get this, I was reading the New York Times (like, TOTALLY, by accident, you guys, the nail salon was out of Cosmo and Glamour) and this chick says that there’s, like, a lot of SEX in this Throney show. SQUEEEEE!!! Okay, I don’t want to make you read the whole article (wrinkles, right?), so here are the important, steamy, sexy bits.
Like “The Tudors” and “The Borgias” on Showtime and the “Spartacus” series on Starz, “Game of Thrones,” is a costume-drama sexual hopscotch, even if it is more sophisticated than its predecessors. It says something about current American attitudes toward sex that with the exception of the lurid and awful “Californication,” nearly all eroticism on television is past tense. The imagined historical universe of “Game of Thrones” gives license for unhindered bed-jumping — here sibling intimacy is hardly confined to emotional exchange.
The true perversion, though, is the sense you get that all of this illicitness has been tossed in as a little something for the ladies, out of a justifiable fear, perhaps, that no woman alive would watch otherwise. While I do not doubt that there are women in the world who read books like Mr. Martin’s, I can honestly say that I have never met a single woman who has stood up in indignation at her book club and refused to read the latest from Lorrie Moore unless everyone agreed to “The Hobbit” first. “Game of Thrones” is boy fiction patronizingly turned out to reach the population’s other half.
Like, OMG! It’s going to be like “Sex in the Ancient Medieval Possibly Made-Up City,” you guys!!!! SO stoked. Can’t wait.
Joanna Robinson has a headache now. F*ck you, Ginia Bellafante, way to make generalizations about your gender. Enjoy your book club, I’m sure the conversations are f*cking dazzling. F*ck you, NYT, for assigning the absolute INCORRECT person to review this show. This “review” is almost as bad as that tragically incomprehensible one from Slate. But at least this one was written in English.
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Comments
Posted by: Fredo at April 15, 2011 12:12 PM
And that's a load of horseshit. The female characters in GoT are some of the more varied, diverse and interesting characters in any book series, fantasy or otherwise. There's heroines (Arya, Daenarys), warriors (Brienne), manipulators (Cersei), weaklings who grow strong (Daenarys, Sansa), mothers (Catelyn), etc. And the thing about them is -- they don't fit into a nice and neat stereotype. There will be moments when you hate Catelyn and moments when you side with Cersei.
As for the sexuality of the series, I think Martin makes salient points about the nature of the medieval/fantasy world he works in -- where political alliances are sealed by copulation between the nobles and to have bastards is seen as a breaking of oaths, the power that the women of Westeros have is greater than we perceive.