There is plenty of female anatomy shown on Game of Thrones. But what about the male bits?
Spolier alert. Don’t read if you haven’t watched Season 5, Episode 1 yet.
Today I sat down with my 70-year-old mum to watch the first episode in the new series of GoT.
(Legally of course, Mr Foxtel).
It was a big deal. We are both huge fans. I’d gone to Gelato Messina specially to get a half litre of their limited edition GoT flavours (half a tub of Jon Snow, half a tub of Hodor thanks very much). We had the big screen TV and cups of tea. It was perfect.
Ten minutes in and Mum turned to me and said…
“Why aren’t there more willies on Game of Thrones? It’s not fair”.
Read more: Game of Thrones: the cheat-sheet.
Now mum’s a retired Catholic school teacher. She’s no prude but she’s no cougar either. She was making a salient point about the representation of men and women in this fabulous, intelligent and epic piece of popular culture.
There are boobs everywhere on GoT. Bums galore. And muff from here til Thursday. We do get men’s bums but the willies are pretty thin on the ground.