Sansa does not threaten patriarchy like Dany. Unlike Arya,Brienne &Asha, Sansa is a gender conformist. She does not navigate difficulties of ruling like Cersei and Arianne who are feminine yet have to rebel against the social structure imposed in Westeros . In short Sansa is the embodiment of non intersectional white femininism that preaches about "purity", "conformism" and lays out the check boxes that entails an ideal Westerosi woman .
Sorry, not sorry. Any woman in a position of power threatens patriarchy.
Any woman in a patriarch society faces the same disadvantage of being ridiculed, not taken seriously, overruled. No woman ‘wins’ in patriarchy, not even the feminine women who happen to fulfill some of the ideals men impose on them - and you can clearly see this in Sansa’s chapters. And if you think that Sansa’s experience - that she did all that is expected of a lady and yet it did not help her at all - will not influence how she sees her role in the future, think again.
On the contrary, you could even argue that women who accept that the male coded virtues are ‘better’, women who are ‘not like other girls’, women who internalize misogyny like Cersei, these are the women who are more easily accepted within the male circles of power because they do not threaten the idea, that male behaviour is superior. They try to get power for themselves by ‘conforming’ to male coded behaviour. This is not the individualism ‘not like other girls’ type of women think it is.
By accepting women with ‘male behaviour’ as their almost social equal, men strengthen patriarchy. It’s an old method really. Allow some of the disadvantaged people to climb the ladder. They will all the more fiercely protect their own position. In my own career the person who was acting the most misogynistic towards me was a woman who had ‘made it’. Women will never get over that if they do not accept that the range of women is as colourful and diverse as that of men.
Sansa is feminine woman - which is not the same as a gender conformist, although there are overlaps. She is about to learn that there are different ways for women. She’s already met Mya Stone. She will find her own unique way of ruling without becoming “Aegon with tits” like Dany or “Tywin with tits” like Cersei. Sansa will be Sansa.
She might even become a feminist, in the sense that she’ll work for gender equality, but as things are now, she is not (as is no woman in the series - working to improve your own position is not feminism, even if you’re a woman. Nevertheless I am sure that she’ll go down into history of Westeros not as the woman with ‘manly virtues’ who ruled ‘as good as a man’, but that she will rule in her own style - and that might do more for women in charge than anything any of the other women did. I doubt that her reign will fall under the category of ‘purity’ or ‘conformism’.
It’s so ridiculous to me that you would claim that Sansa is a non intersectional white feminist when Dany - who uses poc to raise herself, who thinks disdainful about anyone who is not a Targ or of the Blood of Valyria in her own PoV - is right there. Sry, not sry, there is your ‘white ferminist’ (although she isn’t a feminist either, but white feminism is no real feminism, because feminism is about equality for all). The ‘mhysa’ raised on the backs of poc. It cannot be more clear than that.
No thanks for the ask, my dear confused Sansabut!
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