The sexist trope hiding at the sight of Game of Thrones

We have eight seasons of depth and Game of thrones is again betraying his female characters. We've watched 71 episodes of the fantastic saga – that's almost 68 hours of television – and a number of women in power continue to be mismanaged, pulling straw short and extremely damaging.

Women are an important part of The Thrones public. According to data collected by Nielsen and published on wired in 2013, about 42% of Thrones On average, 4.8 million viewers per week (about two million) were women.

HBO recently reported that 17.4 million people had watched the premiere of season eight, which equates to a considerable number of women. David Benioff and DB Weiss have not yet managed to reach the goal.

While The Thrones has, in part, graduated from past mistakes, eliminating (mostly) free unilateral nudity and the familiar theme of extremely limited two-dimensional women, which existed solely to serve the stories of male characters, has always been a constant: when they suffer a loss, they lose reason.

Many male characters have suffered trauma and death from loved ones. Davos Seaworth was heartbroken after discovering that Shireen had been burned alive by Melisandre and Stannis Baratheon. But Davos has not come down in hysteria. Instead, he acquired a grain of steel and vowed to avenge Shireen.

And, do not forget, Jaime Lannister has also lost three children.

Joffrey, Myrcella and Tommen all had a macabre end and yet Cersei became helpless. She is the "monster", making more and more reckless and barbaric choices while the Kingslayer regicide (following the loss of her hand) becomes a more nice character. Despite his many past misdeeds, there is a human quality for Jaime. He is capable of emotion that has not sucked him into darkness, but has offered him redemption.

But Cersei, consumed by sorrow and anger, continued to drift to the point of no return. That's all she's capable of now.

This problem stems from the fact that his children have always been his defining characteristic. And although it is both expected and instinctive that a mother is emotionally attached to her offspring, that's all she has become.

It also makes Jaime a bad service, which implies that her love can not be as big and as encompassing as Cersei's as she is their mother and it's only their father. He remains pragmatic, Cersei is disturbed.

If it was one character, we could let him go. But the same can be said of Daenerys, who seems to repeat the story by becoming the mad queen. Her dragons (or the singular dragon, we should say) are – in her words – her children, and she has lost two out of three.

Many forces operate against Daenerys, some in his own camp. She fears that Jon Snow will take away what she covets since she became the Mother of the Dragons. Whatever your opinion, his indignation and concern are understandable from his point of view. She has, in the most cruel way possible, set in motion and now, her efforts could leave him no booty.

Dany has been underrated, manipulated and abused on a colossal scale, but if male characters are able to withstand betrayal and loss so that they are imbued with inner strength and strength. a measured focus, the same courtesy is not offered to him.

After Rhaegal's death at the hands of Euron, Dany renounced all charges, putting him in danger, as well as his last dragon. Rather than attack from behind at high speed, raining the fleet and their men, she acted on a whim. The reason left it.

She continues to be driven by raw emotion, her logic shattering piece by piece – and while this is understandable when you break down what she's endured, the narrative seems determined to lock her in. the cold, establishing an unpleasant character that alienates the spectators.

And that's not all. Just in "The Last of the Starks", his writers blocked two fingers at Brienne after using it in the service of Jaime's internal struggle for his twisted devotion to Cersei. Then there was Sansa Stark's conversation with The Hound about the mistreatment of Ramsay Bolton, Littlefinger and Joffrey, and her suffering was, in the words of actress Jessica Chastain, used as "a tool for stronger character ".

She added, "A woman does not need to be victimized to become a butterfly.The little bird has always been a phoenix.His dominant strength is solely because of her.And she alone . "

Missandei also failed. As one of only two central people of color in the series, her exit – frankly frowned – in the hands of a white woman was nothing short of dismal. She deserved so much more.