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Every time someone uses “but that’s what things were like back then!” to justify the shitty treatment of women on GoT, I want to gently clasp their head and whisper, “the past is no less complex or multidimensional than the present. throughout history, women have found ways to seize agency within the limited roles forced on them and when you say that women should passively suffer and endure because ‘that’s the way things were’, you reduce them to nothing more than historical victims when the truth is so much more vibrant, varied, and interesting. also westeros isn’t fucking real, so why the fuck should it conform to your extremely narrow understanding of europe’s past.” then i headbutt my way out of there and flip off into the sunset while singing, “did the fucking dragons not tip you off?”
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