Kit Harington would like to revise what he said a year ago about men experiencing sexism, too. What he was trying to discuss last May was objectification, which he knows all too well. In a new interview with the Guardian, Harington doesn’t offer some boneheaded PR defense or insist he was misquoted: He just admits that he was mistaken. “I was wrong there, though,†he told the Guardian. “Sexism against men is not something I should have really said. I think what I meant was, being objectified. At that time, I did feel objectified, and now I’ve learned how to control that.†Now, Harington says, whenever he feels objectified he just “shuts it down.†He goes on to explain his new position:
“Look, I do think men can get objectified. I do feel I have been objectified in the past, sexually as well, in pieces that have been written about me.†I’ve seen a couple, I say, thinking of one article that highlighted the bulge under his loincloth with the aid of several arrows. “Has that made me feel uncomfortable in the past? Yes. Do I think my position is the same as a woman’s in society? No. They’re very different things, and I should have separated them. I was wrong.â€
Does Kit Harington know he just did the sexiest thing ever by uttering those three little words? (No, not “I love you,†or “I brought bagels.â€) Harington said, “I was wrong.â€