so. much. fail.

[deaka]

From the NY Times Game of Thrones review:

While I do not doubt that there are women in the world who read books like Mr. Martin's, I can honestly say that I have never met a single woman who has stood up in indignation at her book club and refused to read the latest from Lorrie Moore unless everyone agreed to "The Hobbit" first. "Game of Thrones"

Comments

[4thofeleven]

What a terribly written article - what, exactly, does the sentance about Drothraki language have to do with the rest of the paragraph it's in?

(For that matter, the sentance you've quoted contradicts the last one - 'no woman alive would watch', but she does 'not doubt there are women who read' fantasy?)

Does the NY Times no longer have editors?

[deaka]

Apparently the argument "Dungeons & Dragons aesthetic + beheadings = appealing to men, while eroticism + unhindered bed-jumping + illicitness = appealing to women" leads to the conclusion that the series panders to a female audience while also holding no interest for anyone other than D&D fans (i.e. men and some mythical fantasy-reading women who may or may not actually exist and are probably reading for the explicit sex anyway)... Perfectly obvious, right?

I was trying to figure out what the Drothraki language has to do with costume-drama sexual hopscotch, but I've got nothing.

[treenahasthaal]

I'm happy to be a freak of nature. : )

[deaka]

*freak of nature high-five* :p

[moonspinner]

Hear, hear!