what a great ask jess. i have SO MANY. all of which always makes me lose followers...

most often than not, people who hate sansa do hate her for misogynistic reasons.

wait let me elaborate on WHY-- first please tell me what a child could possibly do to make you hate them. if you tell me you hate all children i will tell you go ahead i respect that fully i hate them too. but let me know why this particular child is less redeeming than the men of this series who these haters usually do love. what makes jaime, tyrion, theon, any of them more redeemable than sansa?

2. catelyn should not be hated

tbh anyone who thinks it's valid to hate cat over her treatment of jon does not understand her situation. she was like 19? when she was married to ned, still a child her own child when he came back with his alleged bastard son. so she was still a kid, in the middle of a war, away from all her family and now the one man who was supposed to look after her and have her back, immediately started their marriage with infidelity. how is she supposed to just be the bigger person in this? is she not allowed to be human?

3. so many characters are held to a ridiculously high standard (mostly the starks)

expanded from the above take, i feel like so many people FORGET that all these characters are human. and that morality is not something we can strangle characters with. things like hating cat for her treatment of jon and her not being 100% okay with arya being the unconventional sort of lady are things she should be allowed to do. holding Starks to this standard of them having to do everything right all the time is just so unrealistic and quite silly when we realise how subjective morality truly is

so again- sansa being a bit of a bully to her younger sister and being naive enough to believe cersei or the people who try to manipulate her, only makes her a child, a human and therefore not deserving of hate but of understanding.

sansa stark | dream girl evil by florence + the machine