Boys will trap a girl in a bathroom and force oral sex upon her, create a "rape game" for laughs, participate in a violent gang rape, or harass girls by incessantly asking them out.
Here's a partial list of dramas in which at least one central character has been raped: "Game of Thrones," "House of Cards," "Mad Men," "American Horror Story," "Outlander," "The Americans," "The Fall," "The Fosters," "Scandal," "Top of the Lake," "How to Get Away with Murder," and "Switched at Birth".
When online recappers expend thousands of words debating the depiction of rape on "Game of Thrones," or when writers publish histories of sneakers or of the office cubicle, they show intense awareness of mass culture's ability to shape society.
A top HBO executive has defended the often extreme scenes of sex, violence and rape in Game of Thrones, arguing that his job is not to police "how many breasts there are on a show".
Having long been accused of treating its women with disdain – a not unjustified complaint, given its earlier lackadaisical attitude to rape scenes – Game of Thrones spent much of this season leading its female characters to victory: Arya over the waif; Daenerys over the slavers; Sansa over Ramsay Bolton and Cersei over everyone (she had a lot of revenge to do).
Try writing about rape and "Game of Thrones" if you want to see what I mean.
Indeed, the similarity of Cersei's treatment as a captive woman again calls to mind the specter of marital rape that Game of Thrones has raised before.
The players ask frantic questions: Can they rape at away games?
She takes a contemporary example: "Just look at Gamergate: one woman points out the amount of rape in video games, and 10,000 people threaten to rape her.
"Can we rape at away games?" No. "What if it's Halloween and she's dressed like a sexy cat?" No. "What if she thinks it's rape and I don't?" Still no.
The study used FBI crime data collected between 1991-2012 from 138 local and campus law enforcement agencies to compare the number of rape reports on game days to the number on non-game days.
