Imagine if a chick had gotten the Theon Greyjoy treatment. At least in the books, I've never seen the show, but I think he suffered a similar fate there.
From what I understand, he does. And while there were complaints, none of them were about there being sexual violence onscreen. To them, it's simply understood that it doesn't matter if it happens to a man.
I was going to add they don't mind it happening to a villain, but I don't think that's true either. Cersei may be horrible in many ways, but don't you dare have a male character call her a gendered slur, from bitch to cunt, because that's crossing the line. And somewhat related, I still remember early SJWs getting angry at The Avengers because Loki calls Black Widow 'quim', and even though it's a villain doing it and the scene shows she's had the upper hand the entire time, they were offended that it was written in the script that a bad guy used an archaic bad word, and how dare Joss Whedon.
It's like Women in Refrigerators. It's a trope that has at least a little basis in fact - it isn't great if female characters
only really exist to be brutalised to then give the men in their life motivation, and there was a bit of a trend for that to be the case. But of course now if anything bad happens to any woman in comics then it gets called 'oh, they're fridging her', to the point of rendering the concept meaningless through applying it to every single thing. And if a woman suffers any form of violence that she doesn't triumph from, that's problematic and a sign of the oppressive patriarchy, even if in the same breath they're talking about the dangers men present to women and how women are so easily physically and emotionally intimidated by men that even talking to them politely is harassment if they say so.
It reminds me of when Chelsea Cain retconned a key incident in Mockingbird's back-story, so that what was once her allowing her rapist to die rather than save his life became her callously letting him die because otherwise her affair with him would be revealed. Because it was better she be a murderer than have ever been a victim, even though having her survived rape and gotten some justice for it would, you'd imagine, be a better story for women who've experienced sexual violence than for them to learn no, she was just cheating on her husband and then let the guy die rather than be exposed.
It's another part of what's so annoying about their arguments, beyond their hypocrisy - it's that they're also inevitably not particularly talented, so whatever message they are trying to get across ends up hurting their cause, rather than helping it. I've seen it said numerous times that some of the most annoying, forced characters in comics, like Kamala Khan, Ironheart, Captain Marvel, America Chavez, Gay Iceman, Harley Quinn and so on, can be and often have been written in a way that makes them work. It's just the people they get to do it instead are hacks who make them insufferable and then attack people as being bigots if they don't get received well.
There's a way to tie that all back in with the ending of Game of Thrones on TV and what they did to certain characters there, and how angry people got and how the loudest complaints were about the women characters but rarely the men - but it's a bit tenuous and this is too long already.
