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In fairness, the scene from last episode is pretty extreme even by GOT standards. Even I recoiled a little bit, and I don't really get uncomfortable with things like that usually. It was also kind of unexpected, to be honest - it didn't happen in the books and it swerved from a conversation between Petyr and Varys to a scene of a character we knew fairly well killed in a pretty horrifying fashion. I can't think of anything so far that was more brutal in the whole series.

Also, sometimes a trigger warning can be helpful just as a heads up, rather than a sign to avoid something. The circumstances under which triggering content is seen can make a pretty big difference. Contrary to popular belief, there are a lot of sexual assault survivors who use trigger warnings not to let them know what to stay away from but as a way to mentally prepare themselves for the content involved. In other words, that content won't trigger them as long as they are ready and see it coming. But if they're in a "relaxed" state and not expecting it, it's more likely to trigger panic attacks/flashbacks/whatever. In that sense, these warnings can be helpful for people watching GOT, because it's a heads up that they should go into this episode mentally prepared to see something fucked.

A lot of people in fandom, or at least the corner I frequent, are survivors who rely on other people watching the episode and relating back to them what they might want to prepare for going in each week.

GOT didn't even have that much overt sexual violence until season 2, and it feels like now in season 3 there's one every episode.

That said, triggers aren't things to be shunned and avoided at all costs. They're things you have to carefully navigate and cope with every day. Telling people who give warnings or need them for shows like this that they should just not watch at all is really both misunderstanding what trigger warnings can do to help survivors and being willfully obtuse about the actual average content over time of the show they also watch.

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Re: A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE / GAME OF THRONES

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