#or who even get pissed at emma d'arcy for talking about rhaenyra's struggles with gender and her love for alicent

[navree]

People hate Alicent in the same way they hate Sansa.

Listen I don't particularly care for Sansa, I don't find being in her head all that compelling and I think she makes some baffling decisions (post AGOT, she's eleven in that book and I don't get people who get pissy about the Cersei thing when, again, she's literally eleven), and don't even get me started on post-book show!Sansa who is a fucking nightmare, but the amount of people who hate on Sansa as if she's the worst of the worst when other characters include Cersei 'babykiller sociopath' Lannister, two literal psychos in Joffrey and Ramsay, and varied different rapists are weird. Like, Tyrion's out here thinking about how badly he wants to rape and murder different women he happens to dislike, but the preteen is public enemy number one because she's kinda whiny and occasionally uncharitable and wasn't a good sister? Like, be real. Calm down.

Hating Alicent is doubly weird because generally it's criticisms of book!Alicent lobbed at show!Alicent which, like, are you twelve or lobotomized? How do you not understand the concept of different characters? And then their criticisms, which are inherently illegitimate, then extend into denying reality like "actually Alicent wasn't a child bride! She wasn't a victim of marital rape! She was actually being deliberately malicious in crowning Aegon!" as if we don't know her canonical age or didn't watch her on-screen rape scene or did not literally have multiple scenes of concrete canonical proof that she wasn't being malicious at all.

But, you know, Team Feminism are the kinds of people who make their support for women or other oppressed classes conditional on if the members of those classes are likable, not to mention illiterate once they start denying reality because they don't like what that means for the character they hate. And let's not even get started on their one-sided beef with Olivia Cooke, a real woman, and her real life female fans, because Olivia dared to play a character they don't like on a show that they don't even like. And sorry, but acting like Alicent the irl Bambi is the worst person to ever exist in Westeros when the biggest male character is an actual for real pedophile and lowkey serial killer is freak behavior and in fact a red flag. I don't trust you if you hate Alicent Hightower, I don't trust you one bit.