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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-02-11 06:38 pm

[ SECRET POST #2597 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2597 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2014-02-12 09:44 am (UTC)(link)
I'd say Asha, Brienne, Margaery (both in the books and show), and even Sansa have motivations that don't revolve around male characters, though (Asha wants to rule, Brienne wants to find Sansa, Margaery wants to rule, Sansa wants to survive, Cersei wants power and is completely batshit, etc). If Dany could focus more on being a leader instead of lusting after Daario's basic dick, she'd qualify too. But even still, I wouldn't say the main female characters in GOT serve as extensions or accessories to male characters and that's a feat in itself.

(Anonymous) 2014-02-12 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Brienne's character is basically introduced as someone who loves Renly so much that she'll take any chance to touch him, and killing Stannis for his death is her reason for being. Sansa doesn't seem to think that she has any chance without a man saving her. Cersei really seems to wish she WAS a man, and she doesn't worry about her own power so much as her son and Jaime's.

Though Asha becomes a good character in her own right, I didn't like the way she was introduced. She was just there to humiliate Theon, so she got a rough start.

That brings up another problem with GRRM's female characters, now that I come to think of it. Not really having a sexuality of their own, and using sex as a tool of manipulation. Enjoying sex in its own right seems to be almost exclusively a guy thing, and that plays into SOOOO many stereotypes about women, it's not even funny.