nyarnamaitar replied to your post “not every female character needs a love interest.. women can have...”
People often dislike love interests for women, because most of the relationships between men and women that we encounter in mass media are badly written. A lot of female characters are not written as characters in their own right, because the narrative only needs them to be their male counterpart's love interest. I guess this is why people are often wary of romantic arcs and are more comfortable with women who are looking for love. I don't think female audiences hate love stories. I think they hate the way they're written and what implications these stories have ("a woman is nothing without a man on her side"). *who are NOT looking for love
I'm all for rounded female characters seeking love and finding it (*swoon*) and I 100% agree that love doesn't diminish them in any way, but I do get where people are coming from, I do get why some women are not interested in yet another love story that is possibly not written well, you feel me.
@nyarnamaitar oh yeah there’s plenty of TERRIBLE writing out there, and we all have standards and expectations of conventional portrayals of love which are rarely met well. But when they are, I’m swooning with the rest of them! I get why some women might be wary of that, but we cannot discount it altogether.
And in Daenerys’ case, I feel like GRRM is more than capable of writing the rest of her story and continuing with the themes of love he’s incorporated in her arc all along. I feel like she’s damned either way, some people aren’t happy with her being a dragon queen in her own right and others don’t want her settling down for love - but what’s wrong with both? They’re not mutually exclusive. D&D were incompetent swine, but I have more faith in George. I’m not expecting it to be mushy or sentimental but I am expecting it to be REAL and human and painfully sweet. Here’s hoping anyway.
