rambling my silly little thoughts

Thirty yards from shore, three black swans were gliding over the water, so serene . . . no one had told them that war had come, and they cared nothing for burning towns and butchered men. She stared at them with yearning. Part of her wanted to be a swan. The other part wanted to eat one.

— A Clash of Kings - Arya V

Tumblrites, the hour has come for us to practice one of our most sacred rituals.

That’s why she constantly says she should have been Tywin’s son. She doesn’t want to dismantle patriarchy she wants entry into it. And because she can’t have that, she mimics the worst parts of male power domination, cruelty, humiliation, fear. She equates ruling with hurting, because that’s what she’s seen men rewarded for.

What makes Cersei tragic is that she internalizes misogyny so deeply that she turns it on other women. She despises compassion, and even motherhood unless it reflects her own image. Margaery threatens her not just politically, but symbolically. Margaery succeeds as a woman charming beloved while Cersei has been punished for wanting power openly.

And the cruel irony is that Cersei is right about the injustice… but wrong about the solution. Instead of recognizing that the system is rotten she tries to become its most extreme enforcer. In doing so, she proves the very arguments used against women in power, trapping herself in a loop of paranoia, and self-destruction.