GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

Sylas_sl said:

god the sjw tears are so delicious but they are so discordant it's hard to keep track of what their message is.

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Tuco_sl said:

Maybe I don't browse the right forums but I've literally seen zero people being upset that the show had that rape scene in it for sjw reasons and dozens of people talking shit about those who are upset the show had a rape scene in it for sjw reasons.

I see a lot of this shit:
Feminism There are some disturbing comments on the Game of...

Where you can argue one way or the other that it was rape. Is it rape when you choose to go somewhere to marry a dude so you can eventually kill him and take back your home and have full knowledge you're going to have sex with him? At that point it's a technicality really, and reducing the structural patriarchy of noble women being forced into marriages for strategic reasons and having sex they don't want to 'rape or no rape' does a disservice to the efforts of feminism to grow from that structure into what we have today.

But no where have I seen much complaint about the existence of the scene itself.

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Needless_sl said:

The people that still think shes going to turn into darth sansa do

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Agraza_sl said:

Theon betrayed the Starks and killed children. He deserved punishment, and probably inhumane punishment at that. What Ramsay did was holy shit fucked up, but if a woman had killed those kids, the standards would be lowered for her too.

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But even before his art began to grow in popularity, Tookoome was the most skilled whipper among the Inuit, and possibly in the country.

"I don't know if I should have this thought, but I often wonder if I'm the only one in the world who can whip like this," he says, talking through his daughter because he only speaks Inuktitut.

"I'm proud of being recognized as an artist, but I really want to be known as someone with a special talent for the whip."

Tookoome was born on the tundra near the modern-day Nunavut community of Gjoa Haven to parents who lived the traditional nomadic lifestyle of the Inuit. Like most Inuit of the day, the family travelled by dog team, which they drove using whips fashioned from the animals they harvested.

Tookoome began using his own whip at the age of seven.

"It was the only toy I ever had," he says.

Playing with it, he soon realized he could do things that no one else could. While his friends practised striking caribou antlers, he sought moving targets such as mice and ptarmigan. He soon grew so proficient that he was killing 30 ptarmigan a day and bringing them home to his family to eat.

"My mother asked me one day how I was catching all these ptarmigan," he says. "I was afraid that if she found out, she wouldn't let me use the whip anymore. So I told her that I was hunting the ptarmigan with rocks" -- the traditional, although difficult, way to kill the fast-moving birds.

But she grew suspicious when she saw the severed necks on the ptarmigan he was harvesting, and followed him one day. When she saw what he was doing, she confronted him.

"I was afraid, but I couldn't hide the truth any longer. So I said, 'Yes, I've been using the whip.' She was very happy, and told me to use it as much as I could."

Tookoome took the advice to heart and began hunting bigger animals with the whip, even after his family acquired a rifle and a snowmobile. He took down several caribou, and once even used it to kill a wolf that he had shot and injured. He kept the whip with him because operating a rifle was too expensive.

"We never had enough bullets," he says. "And I felt I was good enough to hunt and feed myself as long as I had my whip with me.

"Had I tried, I could probably have even hunted a polar bear, because they're a lot slower than the wolf."

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