<p>Actress Jessica Chastain is taking the much-lauded HBO show &#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221; to task for attempting to use rape as a vehicle to female empowerment.</p>
<p>Chastain did not appreciate the way in which the show, which has always exploited women in every which way imaginable, handled the transformation of Sansa Stark (played by <a data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="4" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:2;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.huffpost.com/entertainment/topic/sophie-turner" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sophie Turner</a>) in a recent episode in which she suggested that she developed gumption in part due to a previous rape she endured.</p>

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