Game of Thrones fans, stop crying over Sansa's rape

Took five seasons and an apparent "rape" for the doll-faced, ignoramus and majorly toyed Sansa Stark to get some tangible empathy. The ear-splitting "Why hasn't she done anything until now" jeering altered to "Oh no! How could this happen to Sansa".

But why this kerfuffle? What were these critics anticipating when the forever-victimised Stark girl agreed to marry the brutish Bolton psychopath? That she wouldn't be raped? That the monstrous bastard, who groomed Theon Greyjoy in inconceivable ways, would be "kind" to her like Tyrion Lannister. She was warned about his wretched interests and likes. Would she have consummated the marriage "willingly"? Ever? If she would never let Bolton-the-sadist sleep with her consensually, excluding the violent and non-violent aspect, wouldn't it still be called a "rape"? And wouldn't that be the case - always?

The hypocrisy of the viewers is quite abysmal. They want to boycott the show because of this scene. A scene that was left to our good-old fancies. Startlingly, the director gave the viewers the liberty to envisage and envision and imply the repercussions instead of serving the atrocity on a well-laid platter; which is otherwise so garishly and ordinarily presented throughout the series. Very well played GoT.

But that's what has incensed the audience. Not when the very credulous Daenerys was married off to Khal Drogo and was forced upon multiple times. Not when Robb Stark's pregnant wife was heinously stabbed in the belly. Not when Jaime Lannister called his wicked twin "a hateful woman" only to rape her next to the corpse of their dead son. Or when Ramsay let loose a bunch of wild dogs on a "sweet" girl he got bored of and hunted down with a crossbow just to appease his fiendish tone. Why were these acts acceptable to have happened to the womenfolk in the series up until now? Why no innocuous and righteous chants of "boycott the show" then?

Apparently the viewers have entrenched atop a saturation point with the inordinate amount of rape and injustice peppered onto the women characters. GoT should suddenly mellow down, become less grotesque and keep it gentle? And then the viewers can haplessly whine about the show being sluggish, not thrilling, tedious and banal (which was amply done after the first five episodes of this season, as they did not meet Thrones' macabre standards).

This cannot be the first time the show has offended you. The head crushing and tongue slaying and decapitating and throat-slitting and all outrageous forms of murder, anyone. Or homophobic elements? Or incest? Castration and mutilation? Crucifixion of children? Animal slaughter? Nudity perhaps? If all of the aforementioned can qualify as medieval fictional fantasy, serving merely as a source of entertainment then why taint the show now for this particular scene, which is relatively less unsightly as it's left to our whims. Why demand duplicity from this impenitent, brazen series.

All those riposting and decrying the deviation of the show from the books, since Ramsay never even marries Sansa in the George RR Martin's narrative, surely know that the show has taken frequent, ghastlier and exaggerated detours before this.This season, all those (seemingly) less significant scenes have made sense only later, after they link to a major plot (Stannis' emotive scene with his daughter revealing details of greyscale and Jorah the Andal being touched by the stonemen; Khaleesi's opening of the fighting pits and Jorah being saved from the slaves with Tyrion's help); this distressing, unwelcome scene would carve out something bigger, for both Sansa and Theon.

Empathy is non-existent and expecting it is farcical, especially when it's the Black Wedding. Don't feel sorry for Sansa, don't try to rob the show of its innate and outstanding quality and don't demand something that GoT cannot offer. This wouldn't be the last time it offended you. And like Martin said, the show runners are trying to give you the best show that they can. Wait, watch or just stop watching.