Season six of Game of Thrones has been more of a feminist love-in than a Hillary Clinton support rally. Admittedly, Thrones women are usually beautiful (with suspiciously good teeth for pseudo-medieval times), and frequently naked, but bear with me.

In this series, there has been a relative dearth of decorative prostitutes, a slew of uplifting moments and more strong, nuanced female characters than you can shake a sword made of Valyrian steel at. George RR Martin has long declared himself a feminist: here are six reasons why the latest run of the HBO adaptation of his books is true to that statement.

1. It trounces the Bechdel test like the Mountain trouncing a sandal-clad monk

The litmus test for on-screen sexism asks whether at least two women talk to each other about something other than a man. Um, easy. One of the best scenes of Thrones to date came in episode seven of this run, when Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey) urged Olenna Tyrell (Diana Rigg) to unite against the creepy fundamentalists who look like they've been branded with Wagon Wheel biscuits, and Olenna peered at her and asked whether she was the worst person she had ever met.