cutthroatbitchcult:

the-future-companion:

masha-russia:

I think the most telling example to illustrate the incredible bias against Daenerys in the fandom would be to look at how Aegon Targaryen (the Conqueror) is treated in comparison.

Aegon Targaryen is widely considered a “badass”, a great conqueror and a great King. I have never ever seen anyone calling him “mad”, or cruel or ruthless. I don’t remember ever reading hate directed at him, even from the most anti-Targaryen (those anti-Targs are primary Daenerys haters anyway) portion of the fandom.
What Daenerys did in the fourth episode parallels what Aegon did during the Conquest, at a battle known as the Field of Fire. Aegon and his sisters faced the Kings of the Rock and the Reach (Lannisters and Gardeners, the original House of Highgarden) and burned thousands and thousands of soldiers, knights and Lords, killing all the men of House Gardener and ending that House in the process.
Daenerys burned a part of the Lannister army – who are her enemies – who killed her allies and who support a cruel selfish woman on the Iron Throne.

Yet Aegon is a badass and a cool dude but Daenerys is somehow “mad” and “cruel” and all of a sudden the Lannisters who were hated by the fandom since Season 1 became innocent puppies who didn’t deserve to die.

I bet that if it was Jon Snow who was somehow riding Drogon, with the Exact Same Scene, I wouldn’t hear a single word of complaint against him and he would be revered as the finest dragonrider and warrior who ever lived.

i believe it’s called misogyny

Thank you. Yall better preach. I honestly don’t understand how an army killing their enemy is “mad Dany strikes again” or whatever the fuck they’re saying.

Daenerys burned the food from the Reach as part of a blockade to Kingslanding that Tyrion suggested in the previous scene and that Jon advised her to do. Yet when she did it everyone is like “Why would she do that?” Jaime Lannister Mad King quotes.

Shut the fuck up and say you hate women. Be honest fandom. This is the main reason why I hope Jon never touches a dragon and if he does they roast his ass like Quentyn Martell.

cutthroatbitchcult:

turtle-paced:

I suppose Dany could have asked nicely for a transition towards an economy based on fair compensation to free workers for their labour? Not sure how well that would have worked.

Ending slavery inherently involves disrupting the economy. No way around it. There is no way Dany can make her anti-slavery goals work while also preserving the wealth of the Masters and their ability to trade as they had been before. Their wealth and trading power depends on their ability to exploit.

I will never understand these people. Slavery is bad. Who cares about their economy if it’s built on the backs of slaves? Fuck them. So? Who cares. What’s the anons solution then? Let’s slavery continue because of the economy~ Like? What the fuck? And this is a good example of the lengths people go to to hate Dany, that slavery was better than the newly freed cities learning a new economy. Can you believe people in the real world think this?