#fandom mysoginy

But when:

- Alicent flirted back with Rhaenyra

- was pissed she might have slept with someone else

- was shown along with the jealous lovers at Rhaenyra's wedding

- was flushed at Rhaenyra finger-toying a ball and staring at her

- was bothered by someone else insulting Rhaenyra

- exchanged a ton of suspicious eye-contacts with her

-was bothered by the existence of her husband she offered her favor years prior

-stated Rhaenyra would make a fine queen in front her father and sons

- caressed her arm while asking her to stay longer,

- threatened a council member who wanted to kill Rhaenyra

- got slured of "childhood companion" by her father

- begged her son to spare her life

- kept a stupid book page Rhaenyra gave her for 20 years

- sending letters to Rhaenyra about her dead son

- got her old bedroom after Viserys died

- slept with the man who took her virginity

- had an Alicole/Rhaenicent parallel in the same spot right after they were intimate on screen for the first time

- reaffirmed her that she believed she would make a fine queen

- got a matching scar to the one she gave her

- accepted that she was wrong about crowing Aegon and found Rhaenyra to give her back the throne instead of simply running away

- Alicent displayed her heart in front of her and asked Rhaenyra to come with her even though it was hopeless

- Daemon asked Rhaenyra's mistress who he had a relationship with if she'd pained by her bond with Alicent

- Alicent called Rhaenyra "your grace" knowing how much the words mean to her, apologized to her about her tone, gave her advice about the reality of ruling while still believing in the kindness of her heart

- readjusted her already adjusted hait when Rhaenyra came to visit and brushed fingers with her

-described her love as "the warm light of her gaze

-compared Rhaenyra's mistress experience with her own

- admitted she was always jealous of Daemon and was still soured about Rhaenyra picking him

-asked Rhaenyra what she is to her

- was pained that she would let a guard prevent her from grabbing her

- Emily confirmed they played Alicent with queer undertones

- Olivia and Emma had a whole official homoerotic S2 promo

- HBO social media accounts use romantic language for Rhaenyra and Alicent, the official drag parody displays them as lovers

The fandom: you know what, I just don't see it. Them being in love being both stated and shown? Don't see it. Y'know what, I think they were actually queerplatonic. Here's an essay against canon evidence, actually. No of course this has nothing to do with misogyny! I love women...I acknowledge when they suffer...sometimes. Also, look at that! Their relationship was not perfect! Aha! What's the point then?! This was clearly abusive! Anyway, I'm going to ship this man with every possible male character that was introduced instead, even though he didn't even like them and liking them actually goes against who he was, and I'm going to invalidate and discredit the canon ship at every possible turn, until people who ship the canon ship will be made feel bad for liking it or posting about it.

I'm going to hold your sexist head when I say this: people are allowed to ship whoever they want in fanon and to not be crazy about a hetero canon ship, but if you cannot see that fandoms are incapable of incorporating and caring about the female character from the story and only acknowledge her seperately from time to time, and almost always make it about the men she is surrounded by instead, misogyny is deeply rooted inside you. When the canon ship is discussed, it's always criticized and invalidated until people who like that ship are discouraged and tired of speaking. People cannot even acknowledge canon and things that came from that love without pulling teeth. But they're all for coming up with increasingly toxic dynamics for every male character and consider it cool. Pushing away the female character and replacing her with a male counterpart. There is no valid reason to not be able to celebrate an interesting canon dynamic, the fanon will still be popular, especially here.