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The Carpet
Office Ladies
The Importance of Women in Fantasy
Jenna Elfman says fantasy is about a badass island of women warriors. Why does fantasy as a genre in general seem to put men and women in such traditional roles? "I'm just saying that like you take the Wonder Woman thing, right? And it's fantasy," she said.
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Speaker 2
That's why I want
Speaker 3
you to speak to this for me. Okay. Why can't the women do more than so and marry?
Speaker 2
Oh, they do.
Speaker 3
They're going to do a lot more. Okay. I'm just saying that like you take the Wonder Woman thing, right? And it's fantasy. And so it's about like a badass island of women warriors. Because we can make up anything we want. It's not based in any real time period. Right. So why does fantasy as a genre in general seem to put men
Speaker 1
and women in such traditional roles? Basically, especially for Game of Thrones, I mean, you guys out
Speaker 4
there that have watched it now, this is kind of a little bit of a subtle hint, but she's not going to get it. So, you know, just ignore, ignore
Speaker 1
the women pretty
Speaker 2
much end up burning it all to the crown.
Speaker 1
They are literally like, I am
Speaker 2
one. They serve it up, lady. Don't you worry. All right. They're going
Speaker 3
to dish it out. I really hope that that girl, the girl who loves the sword play. That's a. Aria.
Speaker 1
Oh, yeah. Let me press me. Okay.
Speaker 2
Ari is going to do. Aria is going to be okay. Aria has a list. I'm not even going to get into it. Oh, wait.
Speaker 1
Whoa, wait. Wait. She has a list. You don't want
Speaker 3
to be on her list. You know, I love a list. Oh, honey. You don't want to be on this list. Oh, okay.
Speaker 4
I can't wait for Aria's
Speaker 3
list. I want to say one last thing and we can cut this out if this goes on
Speaker 2
too long.
Speaker 3
I want to just say one last thing. Winter is coming. Winter. We get it. It's coming, guys. We've been talking. I mean, how many times per episode do they need to say winter is coming in? Also, this winter, it's like, I feel
Speaker 2
like they have the wrong name for it. It doesn't sound like a winter is coming. It sounds like an avalanche
Speaker 1
is coming to bury you for seven years in cold. It's an avalanche of dead walking people. Okay.
Speaker 2
I mean, that's what's coming. The white walkers are coming. So the white walkers come with winter, but the white walkers aren't affected by winter.
Speaker 1
Jenna, I'm
Speaker 5
not going to get into it. I'm not going to get into it. I'm
Speaker 1
saying it's like, all I'm saying is winter is coming is a layered metaphor. Okay. It's not just the cold. Oh, okay.
Speaker 2
Okay. All right. Well, good. But. And the Dothrockies, is that my saying it right? The Dothrockies. Yeah. And Carl Drogo. Yeah.
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