Medieval Fantasy in Popular Culture

Game of thrones has a reputation for very brutal and very dark events that occur such as mass killings of innocents, savage actions to take the throne, and rape culture. Rape culture is a widely used concept that people assume the medieval era to be consisted of. GOT contains men in power, a destined dominance through barbaric nature. Women, though having more of a position in power within the novels, still undergo hard times by manipulation and being seen as sexual objects by men. They are clearly treated in such ways in the series as a few of the more evil characters stated their views on showing dominance through raping and abusing women. Ramsay, Lord Tyrell, Viserys, and Robert Baratheon are a few examples of powerful men who had bad intentions. Ramsay violated Sansa after marrying her; Lord Tyrell had his own sons first true love to sleep with and be payed by guards of his kingdom due to the thoughts of her being of little worth to his son; Viserys though not sexually abusing his ...

For those of you who aren't familiar with it, Fire Emblem is a Nintendo strategy game series comprised of twelve "original" games and three remakes; however, only five of these have been released outside of Japan (at least officially). Each game more or less follows the same premise: you control the main character (usually male) and protect the land with a ragtag band of soldiers against an evil nation who are ultimately controlled by a divine dragon. Promotional art for the 14th entry in the series, "Fire Emblem: Fates" Aside from the morphing classes such as, in the case of the most recent games, Taguels, Manaketes, Wolfskin, and Kitsune, classes in Fire Emblem are based on weapon types rather than race. However, some of these classes are gender exclusive: for every game except Fates, the Pegasus Knight class has been female-exclusive, and the Fighter class has been male-exclusive. And while in some ways it can be viewed as a triumph that Fates remo...