dragonimp

...This is likely the alcohol in me, but the replies asking "but wouldn't it not be Fullmetal Alchemist then?" are making me imagine, like, a musical spinoff that's only about the military characters now (but still focusing on the alchemy users), so it would just be called "Alchemists!" (jazz hands)

(or it's the punchline to a joke detailing all the terrible or morally ambiguous things they've done in the series. "So what do you call your act?" "The Alchemists!")

A man can't be a feminist. He can be a feminist ally, but not a feminist.

1. advocating social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men.

2. an advocate of such rights.

1. the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men.
2. ( sometimes initial capital letter ) an organized movement for the attainment of such rights for women.
3. feminine character.

The show has been elaborately made to the point that producers turned to a professional at something called the Language Creation Society to design a vocabulary for the savage Dothraki nomads who provide some of the more Playboy-TV-style plot points and who are forced to speak in subtitles. Like “The Tudors” and “The Borgias” on Showtime and the “Spartacus” series on Starz, “Game of Thrones,” is a costume-drama sexual hopscotch, even if it is more sophisticated than its predecessors. It says something about current American attitudes toward sex that with the exception of the lurid and awful “Californication,” nearly all eroticism on television is past tense. The imagined historical universe of “Game of Thrones” gives license for unhindered bed-jumping — here sibling intimacy is hardly confined to emotional exchange.

The true perversion, though, is the sense you get that all of this illicitness has been tossed in as a little something for the ladies, out of a justifiable fear, perhaps, that no woman alive would watch otherwise. While I do not doubt that there are women in the world who read books like Mr. Martin’s, I can honestly say that I have never met a single woman who has stood up in indignation at her book club and refused to read the latest from Lorrie Moore unless everyone agreed to “The Hobbit” first. “Game of Thrones” is boy fiction patronizingly turned out to reach the population’s other half.