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saw someone say hotd was gender essentialist which. doesn’t enter my mind because we see very clearly characters being groomed into their assigned gender, especially this season where we see daeron and ormund paralleling both rhaenyra groomed into the throne by daemon (becoming ‘king’ rather than a prince(ss)) and alicent being groomed by otto into viserys’ wife - the queen. (also very interesting that in this case, daeron’s ‘soft’ parenting figure is gwayne). helaena is also questioning alicent’s own grooming of her as queen by marrying her to aegon. idk i think the show is very clear in what it’s saying about this dynastic power and gender and it’s not that it’s inherent to a person

Diversity win! The biggest yearner you know is on the aromantic spectrum

In my Holocaust class last semester we were talking about how some of the inmates of the concentration camps would go to the Rabbis in the camp for comfort and one classmate went on this whole rant about how “brainwashed” they must be that they still needed a Rabbi to “tell them what to do” in a place where “religion doesn’t matter” (lol) and that’s such a weird view of things to me. Maybe that’s what priests are like I wouldn’t know but when I was a kid my Rabbi would listen to me complain about boys pulling my hair and just be like “that sucks you don’t deserve that :( you should tell a teacher” but idk maybe I’m brainwashed