Yes its depicting a very masculine and sexist culture, but often it will linger on the sexy actresses and their private parts for a long time and there are scenes where it feels like its being sexy for the sake of it rather than in any context to the plot.
Yes, the invention of 'sexposition' - the belief that the audience will not listen to an on screen conversation delivering important plot information unless there is a naked pair of tits in the background.
Although I've not watched all the way through and not read the books and, while I know ever major spoiler and seen clips from all 8 seasons, can't really speak in detail of the actual later story lines or some of the smaller characters arcs I've always got the impression that the real sexism of GoT is out world not in world. Yes it depicts a masculine and sexist world - but that in and of itself doesn't make the story a sexist one. In fact, if you wanted to write a feminist story it would probably be far easier to set it in a sexist world than some woman centric utopia. Having an in world society deeply rooted in sexism doesn't mean a story is sexist if it is used to critique that sexism. And I would say that a lot of the villains of the show display appalling misogyny and that is part of their villainy and to that extent the show can be said to be critiquing the social structure.
However, out world, the writers made those decisions to have the sexposition scenes. I believe Emilia Clarke has spoken about how uncomfortable she was with some of her gratuitous naked scenes since the show ended. I think we see her naked breasts before she even speaks in the first episode - and at the time of filming she was 22 and a nobody. This was her big break. She couldn't not do the scene for the sake of her career. But it is arguable that she was exploited.
And of course, Emilia Clarke did get a career out of it. She is rich and famous now - and although that doesn't undo her discomfort or make her exploitation OK there will always be people who claim she could have said no and she walked out of it the winner. But there are so many naked women in the show - in the background - doing graphic and intimate things. And they didn't get a big career out of it - but this was the job on offer. If they want to work, they can't turn it down.
So, in an industry that is notorious for it's poor treatment and sexual exploitation of women I would say GoT certainly didn't help and possibly set things back a good few years. The amount of nudity was considered shocking at the time, this wasn't the writers sliding into the groove that was already there - they created a whole new groove, set a whole new standard for what you can get naked women to do on screen on mainstream television and future shows will now run with that. Shock factor only works once, which means having to make things more explicit and exploiting women even more to get the same reaction until the industry slams a lid on it and says 'actually this isn't OK, we're tightening regulations'.
As for more sexist themes within the wider story and the treatment of the major female characters ... well, I can't really get into that without spoilers
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