@ChrisYndo I love it as an example of gynocentric writing and how bad a fit it is to something as male coded as medieval gritty fantasy. Very subtle and easy to miss.
Feminist writers have been a plague on fantasy TV adaptations for a while now and their shitty, ideologically motivated writing often manifests in a very jarringly obvious way. Alicent from House of the Dragon's probably the best example of lead writer Sarah Hess' butchery of the show, but a much more subtle example that illustrates just how bad feminists' blindspots toward male fantasies makes them for fantasy storywriting is the wifeguyifying of Corlys Velaryon.
Corlys' wife, Rhaenys, dies heroically in a dragonfight against Aegon and Aemond, and Corlys commemorates her by renaming his eponymous ship, the Sea Snake, after Rhaenys. Seems like nothing out of the ordinary, right? But it's character assassination of the highest order rooted in a stereotypically female ignorance of male fantasy as well as the sheer range of character archetypes that male fantasy fans relate to or admire.
Corlys doesn't rename the Sea Snake after his deceased wife in the book. Nor would he, because that's literally WHO HE IS. He is the legendary sailor who's sailed to places nobody from Westeros ever did, brought back treasures and exotic beasts and artefacts and hunted pirates. He becomes the Sea Snake at a young age and this identity is what sets him aside from the rest, the ordinary. It's who he is before his marriage to Rhaenys and it's who he remains even afterward.
And one excellent example of how his identity as the Sea Snake takes primacy over his marriage is the fact that he fathers his two bastards Alyn and Addam AFTER marrying Rhaenys. Because one of the "perks" of being a man of stature in a fantasy world like Planetos is that many women crave your seed, and you have many women to bed. And it's alpha and cool and stuff.
Men invented the fantasy genre with their boyhood/adolescent daydreams about fantastic knights, barbarians, pirates and what not. Corlys Velaryon is a good man, but he's not some knight in shining armor from the European chivalric tradition whose life purpose becomes his madame/partner/wife. Women like Hess cannot fathom this because they're just gynocentric as hell.
Since Sarah Hess is a boneheaded feminist, she thinks Corlys' defining trait is not that he's the Sea Snake, but... Princess Rhaenys' supportive husband. Like a boomer or millennial wifeguy from our world.
He hasn't been done as dirty as Alicent but oh boy was this a horrendous scene lol.
@radfem_witch@RLJMontgomery You hear that guys? While we were enjoying epic stories she was being FORCED. Ewwww male characters ๐คขHow you have suffered. News flash: males write things everyone can enjoy.
Unsurprised to see a follower of vile radfem ideology say this crap
@Sennisgrapist@FapeAllRoids@censor_m3 Cuckoldry is the destiny of the wignat. Your white society produced feminism, and its first targets were white men. If you'd had a spine the genie wouldn't have left its bottle and spread globally
@Sennisgrapist@censor_m3 Nah there's no such angle here, but don't let me stop you from shilling for the cult that's castrated 3-4 generations of your men.
Feminism enshittifies things on a global level. It's everyone's headache at this point. But yeah be a simp if you want to
@doctor_rahmeh@Jonatha68060997@MargBarBRICS Russia helped Israel bomb Iran in Syria you retard. This is old news, from 2018, and the fact you're trying to push this BS right now shows how stale and incompetent your propaganda sponsors are