The fact that people are able to understand and sympathize with maekar in regards to his sons and not to alicent in regards to hers is just pure misogyny.
Because what do you mean that despite aerion being the aggressor in the situation, you understand why maekar stands by him but alicent reacting badly to her sons eye being cut out is her being a b*tch.
You understand maekar being closed off emotionally from his kids and his children running wild and doing things that he cannot control and might not approve of, but alicent is somehow supposed to always have her eyes on her children 24/7, be perfectly emotionally regulated and be the perfect mother all at the same time.
For me part of the issue with Alicent (at least in the show) is that she clearly grooms her children into hating Rhaenyra to usurp her claim then in the show she abandons Aegon and Aemond offering Aegon up on a platter. Also she ends up paying off that servant girl Aegon was harassing so she clearly did know to some extent what Aegon was like.
On the other hand, Maekar is definitely competitive and pushes Daeron into the tourney against his will but there’s no suggestion he’s creating bad blood between his sons and Valaar and there’s no evidence he’s paying people off to stay quiet about Aerion either.
Not saying that there isn’t misogyny involved there certainly is just that the characters aren’t all that similar. Although this is going by show Alicent book Alicent is clearly much more villainous.
