Why do people constantly say that Sansa, Catelyn, and Alicent are "real women" or survive like "real women" while Arya, Daenerys, and Rhaenyra are unrealistic girlbosses? Sure real women don't warg into wolves in their sleep or have dragons, but the grand majority of women aren't also politicians living in luxurious castles and waging wars either lol.
Real women don't have magic powers but they've suffered domestic abuse like Daenerys, they've been starved, orphaned and beaten by adults like Arya, they've had men try to ruin their reputation like Rhaenyra, and women have certainly experienced injustice and had their agency taken away like all three of them.
Sure some women put their heads down and do as they're told to survive like Arya and Dany notably do at times! But women (in everyday, real life no less! 🤯) also try to resist and seek changes. Yes, even when there's pushback and, yes, even when it sometimes backfires and they have to face consequences. But plenty of women have always tried to make changes with the power they have, both big and small; and we celebrate their will to resist harmful circumstances for both themselves and for others.
And it doesn't have to be some grand display of power either. It can just be one little girl who stands up to a bully when he's hurting a another child or one young woman who tries to protect a fellow woman from assault. These women exist and they aren't queens and princesses! They're women you see everyday just living their lives! So why in the world would you try to imply that they aren't as "real"? Is it because you personally couldn't relate? You'd be afraid? That's fine. That's also very understandable and realistic too, but that doesn't make you the arbiter of true womanhood.
So I ask you, do you genuinely believe everyday, real life women have never suffered and survived like Daenerys, Arya, and Rhaenyra? Do you genuinely believe women who try to stand up for themselves and for others don't exist? In your mind, are women who try change the circumstances of their life and society nothing but power fantasies who only exist in fiction? Do you think so little of women? Because I'm baffled.
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