i’m going on a tangent here, since I know this post is mostly about sexism. But not only men felt entitled to what Dany had, but in season 8, literally everyone felt entitled. The Starks thought Dany should just protect them and that they should give her nothing whatsoever in return. Sansa thought she owed Dany nothing despite Dany protecting her and her home, and Arya literally argued that now that Dany served her purpose, they should just drop her like a hot potato, use her for her resources and give her nothing in return.
I find all of this very funny, because antis love to talk about how Dany is supposedly “entitled”, but Dany showed that she wasn’t entitled at all. She never expected people to just give her what she wants, she made alliances, she fought for it, and she protected the Westerosi people and worked to gain people’s loyalty. Meanwhile, the Starks just expected to be given things and give nothing in return whatsoever. If there were any entitled assholes in Game of Thrones, it was the Starks, not Dany. And not only the Starks, of course, many people felt entitlement for what Dany had. Dany was probably the least entitled person in the entire show.
There’s also the level that they only started caring when she became useful.
Viserys was supposed to marry Arianne, so tell me why neither Oberyn or Doran lifted a single finger to help his future son-in-law find a safe place to stay. Then, years later, here comes Quentyn demanding a marriage, bargaining a betrothal that her brother never consented to. Quentyn at least takes it respectfully but his friends sound like a bunch of incels when the girl they like tells them she already has a boyfriend.
Those moments annoyed the crap out of me. Same with Victarion, JonCon, Faegon, Euron, Jon and many others. Not one of them lifted a finger to help her with anything her entire life but all the sudden, they feel like they can take what ever they want from her and get mad when she tells them, “no, I have my own shit to do.”
Exactly! It also pisses me off when these men who are all like “I shall marry this beautiful queen and have all that power for myself blah blah blah” and I’m just like WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT! Do any of these men take a single moment to think that a women who managed to acquire all this power from nothing by herself, isn’t going to just step aside and hand it to you for no fucking reason! How is Tyrion the only one who gets that? They only see her as a women who is in need of a husband.
This is kinda awkward, but I get really angry when I think about the sheer entitlement so many men in the story feel to Dany’s forces, and Dany’s birthright, and Dany’s dragons. In the books it’s Quentyn (via Doran), Euron, Victarion, fAegon. Quentyn’s retinue is angry that she won’t marry him though the circumstances clearly make that impossible. JonCon (I think it was him?) feels impatient that she chose to stay in slaver’s bay because why can’t she get over here already and marry Aegon. In the show, Jon just shows up at Dragonstone expecting that Dany will instantly give her aid while offering nothing in return, and when that doesn’t happen, his immediate response is to demand to leave with nothing accomplished.
I know much of this can be explained and justified given the circumstances and the day and age, but it just sickens me that these men feel they can just make these demands on her and are indignant when she refuses. Like seriously? The world doesn’t revolve around you. Dany has her own fight, and her own ambitions. Stop trying to order her around. You clearly need her more than she needs you.
It’s kinda funny how Dany was like “I need an army to defeat the Lannisters, I will need to get one myself”, and all the men in the story are like “I need an army to defeat the Lannisters/Army of the Dead, oh look here’s a woman who has exactly what I need!”
Arya and Daenerys confiding in one another of feeling the burden of their houses on their shoulders as they both believed themselves to be the last of their line
Daenerys taking Arya up on Drogon because she kept pestering her to
You mentioned Arya and Missandei who are actually much closer in age than Daenerys and Arya, but the two of them befriending one another and teaching each other things
Daenerys teasing Arya about Gendry and Arya teasing her about Jon
Both of them most likely being the same height lmao
Arya telling Daenerys of the time Jon caked himself in flour just to pretend to be a ghost to spook Sansa and them laughing about the visualization of it
Arya pulling a Jon and maybe having a sword or a dagger made specifically for Danenerys and teaching her how to water dance even
Also I LUB Emilia Clarke and she’s the only reason I deigned to watch Solo which is the second piece Star Wars I’ve ever seen in my life, the first being TFA.
The fact that Emilia Clarke and Pedro Pascal could do both Game of Thrones and Star Wars but D&D couldn’t do neither fills me with such joy and a feeling I can only describe as divine justice.
I still maintain TO THIS DAY 🗣 (insert gif) that any argument about Dany being ‘evil’ and ‘selfish’ will never hold water bc baby lemme tell you the second I felt that smidge of bitchiness from Baby Brexit, Jon’s pussy eating skills aside, my evil and petty ass would have promptly carried my ass back to my house with my wine and my kids and my armies and left them mfs to freeze, like everyone with half a brain in the 7K was currently doing. The Queen of the Trailer Park North knew the right one to try bc we know good and well she would have never tried that shit with Cersei. Why do you think she didn’t show up for that Night King summit, because she didn’t want that smoke! Scary ass.
Remember when Sam said “You gave up your crown to save your people. Would she do the same?” Uhhhh she literally did in s3, s4, s5, and literally was in the north to save her people from an army of dead men instead of fighting against Cersei for her crown but alright
Bro…. What if we…. No this is stupid…. Well… What if you…. Turned me into a vampire…. And we were ethical vampires…. And seduced rich people to put us in their wills… Then sucked them dry…. And redistributed their wealth to the people…? While we’re in gay love bro 😳
white female directors have some nerve complaining about lack of gender diversity when it comes to filmmakers and then proceeding to make movies with all white casts. i honestly couldnt even finish lady bird because i kept thinking about much better it would have been if it was about a black girl. or a latina. or an asian girl. or literally anyone else that wasn’t white. how many more ladybirds and booksmarts and edge of seventeens are we going to have to endure before white women realize that movies starring them are not revolutionary. the quirky white girl coming of age movie thing is tired. until white female directors can come up with something else or at least cast some poc in their films, then i won’t advocate for them and they can keep flopping for all i care.
I have often used Barbie to explain Greek mythology, and people laugh until I explain it, and then they get really serious and thoughtful.
I say, “The Greeks ascribed aspects to gods. Apollo had many aspects, but all were Apollo. He’s like Barbie that way. She’s an astronaut, a veterinarian, and a rollerskater, but no matter which of those things she is in the moment, she is always still Barbie. She is Barbie in her aspect as.”
Then people get not only the idea of “aspects” of godhood, but also, well, the changeable yet eternal nature of Barbie.
Broke: Barbie’s many different careers are a way to sell dolls and accessories to little kids.
Woke: Barbie had every single one of those careers and is an immortal timeless being.
Bespoke: Barbie’s different careers are different versions of Barbie from across the multiverse who occasionally swap place with each other or combine into one Barbie.
But in recent years, it has occurred to me from time to time that it might have made for an interesting twist if instead I had made the dragonlords of Valyria… and therefore the Targaryens… black. … if I’d had dark-skinned dragonlords invade and conquer and dominate a largely white Westeros…
Well, it’s all moot. The idea came to me about twenty years too late. – George R. R. Martin
