Game of Thrones Final Sexist Season

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I haven't watched Game of Thrones since season 4 because of the sexist way it treated Shae as an object to love and then be murdered for Tyrion's sake, it bothered me so much I just followed discourse instead, but have been watching this final season and it never changed. Still tearing down the female characters to prop the men.

This whole Dany versus Sansa arc and Dany's downfall is a prime example of who is really to blame. D&D and in show, Jon.  Men. They are pitted against each other because Jon does not have an ounce of good worth or he doesn't care to express his wants, or talk to them like they are people he values, but he's rewarded with the good guy edit, while they are made to be bitchy or crazy. 

Sansa's problem is the North elected Jon and Jon bent the knee. Jon says he loves Dany. Jon is now in succession but doesn't act on it. Leaving Sansa nowhere to go because he doesn't listen to her and she doesn't trust him to put anything above what he wants while it leaves her to handle the worries of managing the North and her own needs for safety and independence.

Dany's problem is Jon bent the knee to her, saying the North would follow her as Queen, got her to the North, and says he supports and loves her but doesn't back it up when the North, his sisters, and others don't follow her. Jon is in competition with her for something she's worked and wanted her whole life, and he doesn't even acknowledge that. How can she trust his words of support if he never backs them up? He leaves her to manage all this conflict with the North alone and doesn't help shut down people who are conveniently trying to push him to overtake her control.

Of course, rather than these two women bonding over their frustrations and past struggles, and desires for independence from male entitlement, cutting out the middlemen, instead they have to fight each other to maintain any power, because it's automatically already given to Jon.

And the show doesn't care to comment on this. Jon will be rewarded or emotionally sympathized with, given the heroes edit, while they are torn down by fans and creators. 

Cause women be the problem, not Jon, not male power. That's what the show is selling. That's what D&D see. It's so tiring to deal with over and over as a female fan. In real-life too. That's what's underlying this blow back and it's making me so angry. You can feel the rage in fans because people admired Dany as a woman driven to rule, with powerful dragons, taking what she wants and no shit for seven seasons, and now she's brought low for this? Same with Sansa. I admired the strong kind girl of the books, or the survivor trying to have control in the show, these are true stories to women. So is getting torn down for men. Men like Tyrion and Jon who talk smart or fight but never struggle half as much, never get this judgment, this overlook. I'm talking show Tyrion, because book Tyrion actually deals with the ableism and his self and public issues. And fuck that!