Rape In The Pointy End

We have been taught, through the media and through word of mouth, to accept rape as something that is just a part of life. We have learned to accept that it is something that happens and that we should be sure to not let it happen to us. Media is a big influence in this age of technology. The more controversial a show is the better ratings it is going to get. In the show Game of Thrones on HBO, rape is very common. In the episode titled, “The Pointy End” there is a brief scene in which a Dothraki soldier is angry because Daenerys, the queen of the Dothraki, has stopped him from rapping a woman from the village they had just conquered. The soldier in question believed it to be his right to do what he pleased with the women of the village as