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The New York Times is taking a quiver full of barbs today, as female fantasy lovers respond to the paper's laughably parochial review of HBO's new series Game of Thrones. The review, by Times critic Ginia Bellafante, is "a flaming insult to geek girls," notes Amy Ratcliffe on her blog, Geek With Curves. While it's easy to understand some of the review's criticisms—namely, the show's confusingly large cast and complicated intrigues—you can also see why some might feel the write up is sexist in its discussion of the show's lurid sexual subplots, which the writer doesn't seem to realize are pulled straight from the books by George R.
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