What a sad, bitter, pathetic person. It's one thing to not like a work of fiction. It's another to view the entire world through a filter of bile so dark, that even the smallest details (like 1000s of words dedicated to inaccurate character analysis of a set of books you hate) get colored with this rage and bitterness. Her critique of this work of fiction is uglier than what she's critiquing. At least Martin has an excuse: it's a story, and some of the people in it are bad. But this girl's overuse of vulgar language like "bitchface" and "royal fuck time" and general sense of vitriol and victimization are
real. She's expressing her very real rage at reading something that a guy made up. Not social injustice, or violation of people's rights ... just something a guy made up. And she's taking gleeful pleasure in trashing things that other people love, even calling them names merely for the kind of fiction they like as she fantasizes about burning their precious artforms in a giant bonfire. Girl's got problems.
Such overriding anger and sense of victimization inevitably leads to (or exposes) one's stupidity. It doesn't take long. Witness:
Remember, kids: Women are meant to be wives and mothers. Also, they are meant to be kept away from sharp objects and heavy machinery at all times. Because they are always thinking with their baby-makers! Oy!
I suppose she thinks this is a funny way to make fun of Catelyn, but this makes absolutely no sense given all other other females characters who don't embody the domestic housewife cliche. Characters which Sady must be aware of, because she immediately trashes them for completely different reasons. Why does she hate all the female characters? Who the hell knows. She even hates them for
opposite reasons (Arya is too tomboy, Sansa is too girly). Talk about a no-win situation. Martin can write women with conflicting and opposite characteristics, and somehow
both still end up expressing his hatred of women? I don't get it. It sounds like Sady is the woman hater, not Martin.
If this is what feminism does to females, completely turning off their critical thinking skills in favor of seeing-misogynism-everywhere-I-look, then women are doing more harm to their gender than men. This seeing-hate-in-everything says more about the woman than the world. It exposes a fundamental flaw within
her, rather than in what she is trying to critique.
The irony here is that she's criticizing a work of fiction on the basis of her own fantasy about how the world is (or should be). She doesn't claim that it's unrealistic, no she simply assumes that people shouldn't write about things that offend her personally, or things about the world she either ignores or wishes wasn't true. When Martin writes about bronze-skinned people being savages who engage in rape, Sady accuses him of racism (even though people of all colors and classes rape in his books--as Sady herself points out--and our world has had plenty of dark-skinned savages), and gets mad at the idea of Daenerys teaching them that rape is wrong because it's condescending for white people to teach dark people things. Or something.
And Dany, as The White Lady In These Scenes, has to educate them that rape is wrong. So when your Daenerys scenes are NOT composed of Creepy Pedo Shit, they are comprised of Enlightened White Savior Shit and/or How Will I Ever Communicate With These Superstitious Natives Shit and/or After Our White Women Shit. What Iām saying is, I want to like Daenerys. But her scenes? They are shit. They are shit. They are shit some more. And then there are dragons.
So even when Martin has an explicit message that RAPE IS WRONG and has a strong female character make this point, one would think that he'd get some credit for creating an archetypal feminist hero, but Sady can't allow herself to enjoy the very thing she ostensibly looks for in fiction because the female is white. And the rapists are dark. Jesus. I suppose if the rapist were evil white men--as all rapists are!--then Sady could finally find something about the book to not hate (notice I don't say "like," I doubt Sady actually finds joy in anything, but merely the brief cessation of her overriding bitterness).
Even Daenerys freeing slaves is a cause for ANGER and CAPITAL LETTERS. One would imagine that for such a champion of the downtrodden as Sady clearly is, she would be happy to see a strong female character freeing opposed people. But no, this is not a reason to cheer. It's a reason to
bitch. Why? Because apparently freeing people from slavery is somehow, tangentially, I-know-there's-a-racist-point-here-somewhere-if-just-use-enough-capitalization-and-anger, ...
racist. Yes, in the bizarro world of feminist hate, even a strong female freeing slaves is an insult to someone. So even when your
results are culture-shatteringly positive, if your
motives vaguely remind Sady of something she hates about European culture 200 years ago, IT MUST BE BAD TO PUT IT IN A BOOK! Through some of the most hysterical (not the funny kind) "logic" I've ever seen, Sady "deduces" that Daenerys' rationale for freeing slaves is exactly the same rationale which created slavery (i.e. that white people view themselves as superior). Damn superior white people ... who the hell do they think they are freeing slaves? How disrespectful, telling other cultures they can't have slaves? [The fact that there were also plenty of dark-skinned people who also enslaved others doesn't seem to pose a problem for Sady's Theory of the Creation of Slavery.]
And it goes on and on. But really, when you realize that even a strong female freeing slaves is a reason to get bitchy, that's all you need to know about this girl. Seriously, other feminists who might be reading this: if you don't loudly condemn zealots like this among your ranks, it's only going to make feminism in general a joke. Sady is a walking cliche of the Clueless Bitter Feminist. She is not here to make the world a better place, but only to whine and moan about it.
Violence porn? This is righteous indignation porn. Bitterness porn. Feminist porn. (Not as cool as it sounds, guys.
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