# Game of Thrones (season 5) BOOK SPOILERS!! TV SPOILERS!

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**Created:** [April 13, 2015, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-season-5-book-spoilers-tv-spoilers/717539 "2015-04-13T02:13:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 18, 2015, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-season-5-book-spoilers-tv-spoilers/717539/304 "2015-05-18T23:09:47Z")

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So feminist-bent nerd culture website has stated they will no longer promote Game of Thrones after this episode.

Warning the article is full of casual spoilers for the books- so I’m throwing the link in a spoiler box to hopefully protect people from accidentally clicks.

[We Will No Longer Be Promoting HBO's Game of Thrones Sansa Rape | The Mary Sue](http://www.themarysue.com/we-will-no-longer-be-promoting-hbos-game-of-thrones/)

It seems like a bit of knee-jerk. It seems from my skim that their take is “We don’t mind an evil rapist character but we’re tired of characters getting raped for plot reasons”  
I totally may be off-base but that was my impression.

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