The show certainly serves up a teenage boy’s fantasy of sex and women, but this is hardly sexism.
People complaining about the nudity are not seeing the forest for the trees.
The show is about people who are marginalized because of their immutable characteristics, such as being female, bastard born, or short. Women in particular are ridiculed when they attempt to assume any role that is not about serving men.
Brienne is one of my favorite characters because she embodies the values of a knight better than any male character, but nobody views her as a knight because she’s a woman. She reveals the hypocrisy of the whole system.
So the show’s examination of gender roles is pretty nuanced.
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