Cersei Lannister’s biggest mistake
Letting Petyr Baelish operate freely did help destabilize the realm early on, especially through chaos in the Vale and his role in the Lannisters and Stark conflict. Cersei benefited indirectly from some of that chaos at first. The problem is she assumed she could always control or outmaneuver him.
But in the long run, Baelish was more dangerous to everyone, including her allies, because his strategy wasn’t loyalty it was constant escalation. Even if she had moved against him earlier, the question is whether she had the political capital to justify it without weakening herself further.
If we’re ranking Cersei’s worst decisions in Game of Thrones, letting Littlefinger operate freely is up there but it competes with bigger ones like:
Underestimating Tyrion Lannister
Blowing up the Great Sept (which technically wins the battle but destroys long-term stability)
Losing control of the Tyrell alliance dynamics
Misreading Daenerys Targaryen’s threat until it was too late
keeping Littlefinger unchecked helped poison the board. Cersei’s biggest flaw was just letting him go and her consistent habit of trusting only short-term wins and assuming everyone else could be controlled indefinitely.
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Women come up with fancy terms when they want to manipulate, feminize and guilt trip men. Terms like:
- ‘Fragile Ego’
- ‘Toxic Masculinity’
- ‘Princesses’
The new one now is ‘malice’. And trust them to run with this for a while. It’s just a strategy to guilt trip men who have found a way to deal with their BS.
You shouldn’t fall for it. It’s better to be called a malice keeper, than to be involved in Domestic Violence.
The reason this thought process can’t hold water is because men and women don’t offer the same amount of effort or sacrifice in relationship dynamics, or even in life in general. Men offer more.
You can’t ask for equal outcomes in a relationship dynamic where there is no equal input.
Think about it, in most cases:
- It’s a man that goes to woo a woman, not the other way around.
- A man in his 30s, who has everything can decide to meet a young lady in her early 20s who has nothing, and decide to marry her and become responsible for her. A woman will hardly do that for a man.
- Even when a woman becomes wealthy and successful, she looks for a man who is more wealthy and successful than her for a relationship, she doesn’t date down.
- Let’s even look at the case of polygamy that women criticize. It’s a man choosing to become responsible for multiple women. Nothing stops a woman from doing that too, but they never do.
When women start doing all these, then your argument can stand.
I can bet it with you, if it was the woman that was providing and making all those sacrifices that man was making in that marriage, and cheated, the man won’t bring it to social media, he will lock up.
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When they start telling you Saka is better than Lamine Yamal, your body will calm down. Is it not Arsenal fans again?