Nudity And Rape Discs: The Objectification Of Women

The Objectification of women through the use of nudity and rape scenes is the HBO series Game of thrones is thoroughly discussed by Askey, Needham, and Ferreday. Askey suggests that due to emphasis but on masculinity in the show that the male characters objectify women to assert their own masculinity. Askey uses the conversations between Varys and LittleFinger to exhibit his view of women as ““a collection of profitable holes”” (“Valar Morghulis”).” (55). Needham also goes into how LittleFinger uses his dominance to exploit the women that work for him. Needham goes farther into this by suggesting that the fetishizing of women has gained the show praise and could possibly reflects misogynistic views in our society. She explains this position by bringing up how the show’s awards and praise are attributed to the viewership and reviews from the audience.

Needham expresses this by stating that “This sort of representation, especially through a paid subscription service used by the network, teaches us as a Western society that we have the right to convert women into sexual objects that will reveal themselves to us, perform sex for us, and ultimately turn sex into a spectacle that we, as paying viewers, have the right to see.” (4). Ferreday takes a similar approach to this by identifying the rape culture within game of thrones and the similarities to rape culture in the modern world. Ferreday makes the connection between the modern world by pointing out that as rape is romanticized in the media it unfortunately reflects the events happening in today’s world unfortunately. She uses the example of the Lannister rape between Jaime and Cersei that are morally ambivalent at the time it