#sometimes i like to torture myself with nightmarish what ifs

[ogorodami]

To me, there's always been something very demeaning about the public's reaction to D*ny's character arc. The abuse she suffered from Drogo was romanticized from the get-go. Her questionable actions always got downplayed or whitewashed. Three living nukes and a court made up exclusively of sycophants didn't raise any red flags at all. Her very real and very present descent into not really madness but hellish depths of entitlement and narcissism, turns out, went fucking unnoticed by almost everybody because pretty blonde girl, dragon go roar, music go "aahh" very loudly.

I actually wondered at the time whether the whole “Sansa had a point” issue would have even caused such a meltdown had D*ny been a man (sweet summer me, I had yet to encounter the breaking bad twitter).

The way Dænerys has been infantilized by this fandom (and also EC herself which was just... painful to witness) because of her gender is disturbing. Poor little pookie, massacred a city because she's big sad and people are mean to her for no reason. What, she's a vicious warlord conquerer whose only goal in life is to subjugate an entire continent that doesn't want her? Girlboss! But also she's just a girlie. She's just a girlie girl with a dream, you can't seriously be mad at her. How unfair, how tragic that the ungrateful world would twist this innocent baby into a monster and force her to defend herself against a bunch of powerless peasants.

Clowning on targs is one of my passions but these are not my words.

Also, can you actually imagine if Dænerys was male? Imagine, just imagine this absolute horror show of a character. The hypocrisy, the entitlement, the faux feminist allyship of it all. Since, you know, he'd be one of the good ones, like Rhægar or certified malewife Dæmon. Just ask his khalasar.

Do I think boy D*ny (Dan? Dænny?) would have received the same lenient treatment from the fandom? Well, personally, I got my answer now that hotd is out.

He would. Oh, he would. And I genuinely believe that it would have been even worse.

As for characters like Sansa or Cersei, I can only imagine how the abuse constantly hurled at them by pretty much everyone here, save for their own stans, would have quadrupled with Dænny Targarito in the picture. Because there's only one thing women like them can be that's worse than being enemies with a fun special girl. Being enemies with a fun special boy.