I enjoyed it very much I'm torn as to my favorite part, it's a perfect draw between everything you ladies said about reading and the achingly hilarious new meaning assigned to the words, "I want to see the little man fly!" (Add "Try not to laugh out loud on the subway while listening to APOIAF" to the list of Things People Do While Commuting in NYC.)

And thank you for bringing up my question of the "happy whore" trope, everyone made good points-- I hadn't thought of prevalence of brothels as being significant before, but it's definitely a good indication of how the prostitue population of Westeros has tried to order their lives. I think I would still argue that prostitution doesn't seem to me like an option of equal esteem to wife/mothering or finding other field or domestic work. I could just be projecting my modern sensibilities onto the word "whore", but there often still seems to be a distinctly negative connotation to the trade. The example that comes to mind is in ADWD, when Theon tells Jeyne Poole that her former identity is just a whore now, and it is better for her to be Arya Stark. Obviously there are exceptions, but to me it seems like women who choose and/or find it necessary to become sex workers in Westeros somehow lose whatever value and identity they may have had as women and become disposable. (I think I'm still just talking about Westeros...)

i made that comment when referring to the normalcy of cousins marrying and that the stigma is fairly new in society.b

still not finished with your great episodes m'ladies. i enjoy it very much. although i have to admit that i always mistake one of the new ladies with linda from westeros. their voices are quite similar. thats somehow strange

and regarding the world-shaking question of big dicks, i would assume this order:
- thormund's giantsbane
- dunk's lunk
- hodor's hodor

[thing I forgot to mention previously] Holy crap Mimi, English is your third language? That is insanely impressive. Accordingly, I am insanely impressed. [/thing I forgot to mention previously]

no Ossifer's Plumm?

oh no - i just took the one's with hard evidence from series or book (thormund-himself, dunk-comic, hodor-osha/series)

because if we play the "who has a nickname that sounds like a dick-name"-game my first candidates would be:
- the longinch
- dragonlance
- the sword of the morning

oh no - i just took the one's with hard evidence from series or book (thormund-himself, dunk-comic, hodor-osha/series)

d'aww, thanks! although my order of fluency is completely reversed, so not too impressive. thank god my family communicates in a weird amalgamation of the three.

Great job, ladies! Really thoughtful conversation and you all made lots of interesting points. While I was listening, I had to stop myself from saying "wow, you're so right!" or "I never thought about it that way before" out loud.

I know I'm still little more than a lurker on this board, but I wanna co-host on the next GNO so bad! My copies of the books are full of sticky notes and I can bring the dick jokes like nobody's business.

Also, are you guys familiar with these excellent defenses of Cersei, Catelyn and Sansa? http://www.youtube.com/user/elsabette I hope she does more videos, especially for Dany.

May I ask where you found the nice guest hosts - they seem to be new on the forums too.

May I ask where you found the nice guest hosts - they seem to be new on the forums too.