Okay then, if that's all you meant, then I may have attached context & implications that you didn't intend.

Moving on, wish fulfillment isn't the only thing that can attract interest in a work. It certainly can be a reason, but there are other avenues towards engagement (unless you take the trivial definition where any interest constitutes fantasy and desire). At least for me it never was in GoT. In the case of GoT I thought it was more emotional investment in the characters and their stories that drew people. But I can't read minds, so maybe everyone else just watches it to imagine wearing cool clothes and fighting duels and so on.

I think you're being overly kind in your interpretation of the article. It's hard for me to read a paragraph like this:
The dangerous trick here goes like this: someone fantasizes about a world in which rape frequently occurs and consistently goes unpunished; to explore this emotional fantasy, they set it in a premodern narrative fantasy world where they can displace their own desire onto “history.” The dark impulse or desire isn’t theirs, then; it’s the world’s. It’s history’s. And once a dark personal fantasy becomes “realism,” gazing upon this dark thought or idea isn’t a kind of humiliating or dangerous self-reflection, it’s laudable: it’s an honest engagement with truth.
and not believe they're talking about fantasizing (a dark impulse or desire) about a world where rape frequently occurs and consistently goes unpunished.