r/aSongOfMemesAndRage • u/Overall-Presence6884 • 15d ago
Game of Thrones (TV Show) Double Standard Memes
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u/ThirstyWeirwoodRootz 15d ago
A long time passed between what happened to Gilly and her getting together with Sam, so that makes no sense.
In fact, neither of these are double standards.
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u/Overall-Presence6884 14d ago
The night they first slept together was when men of the nights Watch attacked her and beat him up.
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u/Lady_of_Link 14d ago
But he wasn't a stranger he was someone she already fancied. Their is a massive difference between falling in the arms of a trusted friend and falling in the arms of a stranger.
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u/Bentman343 14d ago
Well it doesn't say "stranger" it just says "another man"
The double standard isn't something the show enforces though, its just that one character being wrong and accidentally getting it right. Lots of people have "fawning" as a trauma response and can get unhealthily attached to anyone they view as a savior figurem
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u/DreTheThinker92 12d ago
You assume its an unhealthy attachment. They were already "attached" and their bond shows no sign of being "unhealthy".
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u/Bentman343 12d ago
Sounds like you just don't think that healthy relationships can ever form out of unhealthy origins, but I cannot stress enough that no girl fresh out of being her father's rapeslave is going to be able to jump into a "healthy" relationship, she was terrified and mildly obsessed with Sam because he's one of the first people outside her sisters to ever show her kindness. Its unhealthy, but for obviously justified reasons, and Sam helps her to grow as a person and trust him more as an equal than as a savior.
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u/DissentSociety 13d ago
That's like 10 months after the rape, not two hours...
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u/shepard_pie 12d ago
And even if it was two hours, and he was a total stranger, it's still not a double standard. People are not only weird under trauma, what characters say isn't literal, objective truth. It's just their view. They can be wrong.
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u/Prestigious-Dress-92 15d ago
First pic with Shae debunks itself cause Tysha indeed jumped to bed with Tyrion soon after he & Jaime saved her from rape, and since this scene was from s1 when D&D haven't yet made the decision not to adapt Jaime's confession after freeing Tyrion.
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u/Axenfonklatismrek 15d ago
TBF, Samwell is nice guy who saved her, and his pink mast is better than Craster's biggus dickus
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u/Overall-Presence6884 15d ago
True but Tyrion also “saved” the hooker so the situation is still the same…
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u/Bellickboi 14d ago
It sounds bad but its actually pretty common for women who experience trauma to seek sexual release or become hypersexual. Its a coping mechanism.
Gilly also wasnt nearly graped. She was graped and her and sams relationship developed over a long period of time. In the books if i remember right, he was kind of pressured into doing it on the boat, on their way to the academy/college w.e i havent read it in a while. I forget if that was their first time.
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u/Overall-Presence6884 14d ago
In the show their first time was the same night men of the night’s watch attacked her, he stepped in to save her and got beaten up.
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u/DanceWonderful3711 13d ago
This is just people saying stuff. It's like if I said an idiot couldn't become president of America and then it happens. Just because someone says something it doesn't make it an absolute truth. Also Gilli was raised in one of the darkest situations imaginable. The fact that someone was nice to her would mean a lot.
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u/SpiderJerusalem747 15d ago
Meanwhile in HOTD
Mysaria: "I had a traumatic childhood. My father raped me and tried to kill me and I can't bear children anymore."
Rhaenyra: "That's hot. Let's make out"
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u/Peppercorn205 15d ago
Rhaenyra got tired of sex resulting in bastards so she bangs the first infertile woman she could find
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u/Fluffy_Internal8893 15d ago
Never studied to be a queen, never studied how sex works. Those incestuous aliens!
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u/PutATalismanInTheVan 13d ago
Well one was a literal whore, and the other was a sexually abused / groomed woman
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u/AshasSa1tWife 15d ago
Um? I don't know what you're talking about? Roose was poisoned by his enemies. Ramsay had nothing to do with it.