These leaks about Alicent have got me more furious than I thought I could be. How is it the third season and the writers are still using SA as a meta narrative to punish, humble and humiliate her?
She was pimped out by Otto, raped by Viserys, and blackmailed by Larys in S1, blamed for B&C because she was having consensual sex for the first time in S2. Now in S3 sheâs going to be kissed by her own son and Jasper Wylde is going to SA her?? This is literally more than all the other female characters combined. Forced to be a child bride and teen mum, paraded at the funeral, attacked by the smallfolk, in obvious pain from moon tea and/or miscarriage, her relationship exposed and ridiculed, constantly bathing and naked and her body âatoning for her sinsâ - I could go on and on.
Youâre telling me even after her (terrible) âredemptionâ in S2, Alicent still needs to be assaulted multiple times by multiple men, when in the past this has been used to prove just how wrong she was for siding with them?? Except HOTD changed it so she had no agency in any of that anyway. Sheâs excluded from the green council, misunderstanding Viserysâs last words, and selling out her family to finally support the ârightâ side - so what exactly is there left for Alicent to be âpunishedâ for in S3?
Like in what world does anyone feel comfortable inventing this amount of assault, perversion and obsession with a womanâs body, and continue to frame it as righteous punishment and redemption?
Alicent is simply their morality tale for âbadâ women, but who wants SA as a âgotchaâ moment even for people they donât like? Because itâs not even standard for GRRMâs world - every single instance is a show invention. Itâs the kind of thing you wouldnât wish on your worst enemy. And yet the writers have the gall to claim this is a feminist retelling of F&B.
Was going to watch S3 for shits and giggles but this is genuinely veering into some of the most gleeful misogyny Iâve ever seen on screen, and there seems to be nothing left for Alicent but to repeatedly apologise and continue to be assaulted in spite of it
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