While she does project strong hate towards men, be it in demeanour or way of thinking & expressing herself, Cersei Lannister is FAR from a feminist, and in fact, has a mechanism of comprehending densely built out of raging inner misogyny. Regardless of being a woman in a position of power, she almost always claims the POV of a man, wishing to be one, and feeling substantially weaker being born female simply because she believes to be ‘a better man than any of them could ever be’. Being restricted and treated differently from childhood on, especially growing up with a twin brother, and growing to accept their dissimilarities in perception, regardless of being “”TWO HALVES OF ONE”“, witnessing the choices, options & opportunities that was handed to him when she was forcefully led through a path she had no say in, she was raised to think being female meant being no different than being ‘a broodmare’, an animal, while being born a man offered the world to someone of the same status and even SAME LOOKS in her case.
❛ When we were little, Jaime and I were so much alike that even our lord father could not tell us apart. Sometimes as a lark we would dress in each other’s clothes and spend a whole day each as the other. Yet even so, when Jaime was given his first sword, there was none for me. ‘What do I get?’ I remember asking. We were so much alike, I could never understand why they treated us so differently. Jaime learned to fight with sword and lance and mace, while I was taught to smile and sing and please. He was heir to Casterly Rock, while I was to be sold to some stranger like a horse, to be ridden whenever my new owner liked, beaten whenever he liked, and cast aside in time for a younger filly. Jaime’s lot was to be glory and power, while mine was birth and moonblood. ❜ ( Cersei, ACOK )
After being treated like an object by her own father to later on get sold to Robert like livestock, when she was only a kid, to be raped and abused and shut down for seventeen years while holding the title of queen and still being treated like an object regardless of it, she grew not only to scorn upon the idea and reality of womanhood, but to downright hate it. While it might have been possible for her to “wring her suffering” in a way that could perhaps make her a feminist, where she would be proud in being the woman she is and not “the man she would make”, it wasn’t quite the option without a woman figure around, especially a woman that defied, even slightly, the expectations of a patriarchal society, and even more so a mother figure of the kind. It was also the lack of support and inner - strength through which she would go against being made into a “slave” for being born female, in a drastically different way. It was at first almost innocent, the way she was blatantly confused about not being able to hold any title a man was freely offered when she knew to be more fitting an option herself in every way.
What’s very important in recognising her behaviour patterns is, despite despising the idea of being born a woman, not sexually but as a mindset that is accepted by everyone around her, and wildly wishing to claim the power of a man, she still perfectly realises their weaknesses, and it is indeed, an enormous factor playing in the piling of rage and rancour that easily and corruptively thrives within her and gets stronger gradually over the course of years. She strongly believes that all the men who were born as what she was taught as the “supreme” sex, are inadequate and thus undeserving of the things they were born entitled to when she had to sit silent and look pretty despite being way more capable. Especially fuelled by Robert’s brutality, general ignorance and the way he failed to be even a mediocre spouse, father and most importantly, what a ‘king’ should be, she grew to hate men as well as women, but even more so, she began to think she’d always hold the upper hand against a male-dominant kingdom, through MANIPULATION, especially using her beauty and sexuality to the point of growing delusional and thinking of her body as a weapon that she could wield to survive.
Serving men cleared away the swan, hardly touched. Cersei beckoned for the sweets. ❛ I hope you like blackberry tarts. ❜
❛ I love all sorts of tarts. ❜
❛ Oh, I’ve know that for a long while. Do you know why Varys is so dangerous? ❜
❛ Are we playing riddles now? No. ❜
❛ He doesn’t have a cock. ❜
❛ Neither do you. ❜ And don’t you just hate that, Cersei?
❛ Perhaps I’m dangerous too. You, on the other hand, are as big a fool as every other man. That worm between your legs does half your thinking. ❜ ( Tyrion, ACOK )
She openly calls men a parade of fools but not because they’re “”born male””, but because she thinks none of them manage to reach her idea of what a ’man’ should be ; allowed to do anything and everything but never doing anything. She stresses that she too is perhaps ‘dangerous’ because she believes to have the mind and capacity of what people expect of men in equal statuses, while being a woman that can manipulate the men, who all in her eyes, fail to be “worthy”. In her head, she is THE RIGHTFUL KING, not a queen, which is an almost empty title for her because of the way people treat it, she claims it so harshly only because she means to make that change.
So, she is definitely NOT a feminist, looks down upon the IDENTITY MATCHED WITH THE GENDER OF FEMALE, in the ways she saw and learned and was taught, she doesn’t want to relate to the “woman” that the society wants to see.
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