Beauty and the Beast: According to Society Women Canât Be the Beast
There have been various adaptations of the tale Beauty and the Beast since its conception and it is undoubtedly one of the most cherished tales among children and adults, but just as any tale gender roles play a part in it. In western societies these gender roles are divided into male traits: assertiveness, aggression, anger, strength, lack of emotionality, and females traits: kindness, purity, sensitivity, demureness, and weakness. Almost all roles then in television and films follow these guidelines when creating their male and female characters, which can be frustrating to those who are not limited to the traits for their gender. The response of many to change this has been to create the âstrong female character,â who ends up being a hypersexualized and beautiful female with male personality traits. Game of Thrones is a culture phenomenon, and one of its greatest accomplishments has been to create the character of Brienne of Tarth (played By Gwendolyn Christie). Brienne is not beautiful by any of our typical standards, but she is strong of heart, mind, and body, yet throughout the first seasons of the show it is made known that no one has ever been interested in Brienne as a woman, and she suffers for an unrequited love for another man.Â
When Brienne meets the character of Jaime Lannister (played by), they clash in more ways than one:
Brienne takes Jaime as prisoner and they are forced to work together as reluctant allies. Somewhere along the journey a friendship blossomed but underlying it was an undeniable tension.Â
Many fans became enraptured by the relationship between these two characters and hoped they would get together romantically. Even so, there are other members of the GoT fandom that want Jaime to stay with his current lover, twin sister Cersei, and for Brienne to stay with Tormund, a man who shows interest in Brienne to which she does not reciprocate. There appears to be a rejection of females that lack physical beauty. Females that are considered âuglyâ or conventionally unattractive are considered fit partners to individuals that are of equal physical attractiveness. Cersei and Jaime are very attractive, Brienne is not. It would be interesting to see if ingrained gender biases for female beauty cause fans to be against this relationship. Many current âstrong female charactersâ are tough, but beautiful, possibly strengthening the relationship between beauty and strength in women.Â
Brienne is all about honor and valor. When they began their journey, Jaime was lost and Brienne could not respect him, but she understands him in a different way than his sister has. Cersei is a great female character herself, but she is undeniably selfish, and to have honor, which is what Jaime desires to achieve there needs to be no selfishness. Though these two have started as friends, they have fallen in love with one another. The actor who plays Jaime states: âYou constantly feel this subtext of a weird fondness and attraction between them that they never act on, and could never act on. Itâs intriguing. You kind of go, âWhy canât you justâŚ?ââ
Many fans of sci-fi/action/fantasy genres believe that if women get into a relationship with a âmasculineâ or âtraditional alpha male,â they suddenly lose all agency or âcool factorâ previously attributed to them. They prefer these female characters be with non-threatening or non-attractive male characters in order to preserve the femaleâs âstrengthâ and moral character, even if the female shows no interest/rejects the character in a romantic way.Â
One of the things that bother me most is that women complain that they feel uncomfortable when men make overly sexual gestures at them when they obviously have no interest in them. I know how that feels like, my friends have told me how it makes them feel and it is very unpleasant.
I am not sorry, this is not the face of a woman who feels happy this is happening. The director, Dan Sackheim confirms that this attraction is very one-sided: Brienne isnât quite smitten with the bearfâker just yet, but that doesnât mean there isnât hope. âI think it was fairly one-sided, but thatâs OK,â he reasons. âThereâs nothing like a challenge. Men love a challenge.â
Brienne is one of the greatest characters of all time, and while incest is extremely creepy, people want someone who had sex with a bear? At least Cersei and Jaime could give consent to one another.
It is one thing that a woman feels an attraction from the start but is either closed off emotionally, or is not sure she wants to be in a sexual/romantic relationship. If that happens itâs okay to try to reason to the person to open up to them and if it does not change their mind then leave them alone. But someone who is not interested at all being worn down into accepting a romantic partner? Donât do that, to yourself, or to anyone else, and do not do this to Brienne. I believe it would send a extremely important message in regards to female beauty in heterosexual relationships if Brienne finally gets to be with a man she loves. It would be the opposite of every âguy falls for girlâs personality but then she gets a makeover and becomes the perfect womanâ trope, which would be pretty dang cool.
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