Board Thread:TV Show Discussion/@comment-5014364-20170524173348/@comment-26973527-20170524213808

The Dragon Demands wrote: .....They haven't met prior to this season. GRRM said Yara isn't gay in the books so they won't in the next book either.

When people complained about the Ros/Armeca sex scene at Littlefinger's in Season 1, it wasn't because "ew, sex" or "ew, woman on woman sex".

It's because the showrunners are a pair of horny 13 year old boys in adult bodies, who think Lesbians Are Hot. Hyper-sexualizing gay women. That's quite offensive.

And maybe this is just a small moment taken out of context (the Yara with random brothel whore thing from Season 6 wasn't particularly big, but seemed liked it in the trailer).

POINT OF CLARIFICATION: If Yara were like, making out with Daenerys as a fling in the trailer, I'd be fine with that (they met last season, Daenerys is bi in the novels and was flirty with her last season, etc.)

The reason a lot of people on the internet are facepalming about this is because "Ellaria" Season 5 onwards turned into just the showrunners stunt-casting her into doing wacky things....just a vanity project to show off the actress. A poorly done one, the two of them just surrounding her with wacky inventions (like that godawful "you want a good girl..." line).

Quickly, any storyline Ellaria appeared in became the next one the showrunners "jazzed up" with their own wacky, drunken inventions.

....so really, if Yara were kissing ANYONE else, any other woman, this wouldn't be a problem.

But Ellaria Sand...has become a red flag that "we're about to do something horrendously stupid and gratuitous because we the showrunners are drunk sex hounds who by our own admission put in naked women to pander to the perv side of the audience"

It's just "what other random ways can we just abandon these characters storylines?"

Headache inducing. Make a tumblr blog about it. As a gay person myself, I can assure you people like you are beyond exhausting. What you call "hyper-sexualizing" gay women is as much "hyper sexualizing" them as any other straight person on this show. This game is made off sex. And if there were no gay scenes, you would all be crying lack of sexual diversity, give me a break. If you have a problem with Ellaria Sand as a character, base your complaints off of that, the fact that you have a problem with her kissing another woman says.. Well just that. That you have a problem with a woman kissing another woman. Well done putting a screenshot of them kissing on the mainpage regardless though? Lel