Most of them. Makes me think of Tolkien. He treated death differently, but it was almost always a man dying. I think we both probably understand the male sense of honor in sacrifice that Tolkien would invoke in those moments. It's just that society doesn't treat it that way anymore. Except under special narrative conditions (for instance when an "ally" character of fodder variety dies).

I really do think that if GRRM had placed ASOIF in, say, an African kingdom setting, showrunners adapting it in modern America would be squeamish about depicting "good guys" slaughtering civilians. In the same way that, if it were set in a ridiculous exclusively female society, they wouldn't slaughter those civilians.

If you ignore the racial element of the genocide propaganda narratives, the narratives in which the one kind of person is "fodder" and treated as less-than-human, you will only get part of the picture.

Most of them. Makes me think of Tolkien. He treated death differently, but it was almost always a man dying. I think we both probably understand the male sense of honor in sacrifice that Tolkien would invoke in those moments. It's just that society doesn't treat it that way anymore. Except under special narrative conditions (for instance when an "ally" character of fodder variety dies).

I really do think that if GRRM had placed ASOIF in, say, an African kingdom setting, showrunners adapting it in modern America would be squeamish about depicting "good guys" slaughtering civilians. In the same way that, if it were set in a ridiculous exclusively female society, they wouldn't slaughter those civilians.

If you ignore the racial element of the genocide propaganda stuff, the narratives in which they are "fodder" and treated as less-than-human, you will only get part of the picture.