8 Reasons Why Game Of Thrones Is Problematic In India, Already Entrenched In Rape Culture
This article was originally published on Women's Web (one of India's leading feminist publications) on January 21, 2020, and was written by SHIVANGI SINGH (the owner of this blog) and ANVI SAWANT. In a country where rape videos are easily available as porn for sale at Rs. 10 at roadside shops, a show like Game of Thrones pandering to the male gaze seriously affects mindsets. Films have constantly influenced many things in India right from language to fashion to behavior. In 2015, Sandesh Baliga, an Indian man , was acquitted by the courts of Australia of the charges of stalking 2 women as he pleaded ‘not guilty’ stating that he belonged to a remote town in India and that Bollywood was responsible for influencing his behavior since it’s a norm to stalk non-consenting women in it. It was only after the 2012 gang-rape when angry students marched through the national capital that finally Bollywood came under the spot-light after decades. The report from the Geena Davis Institute
