A_Zin

The idea that the ideal pairing is a 40 year old guy who grinded his way to success alone and a 20 year old entitled princess who uses a "trad" smokescreen to hide her shallowness is seemingly common to both Redpill and Muslim conservativism. Both gynocentric bugman ideologies.

Feminist writers have been a plague on fantasy TV adaptations for a while now and their shitty, ideologically motivated writing often manifests in a very jarringly obvious way. Alicent from House of the Dragon's probably the best example of lead writer Sarah Hess' butchery of the show, but a much more subtle example that illustrates just how bad feminists' blindspots toward male fantasies makes them for fantasy storywriting is the wifeguyifying of Corlys Velaryon.

Corlys' wife, Rhaenys, dies heroically in a dragonfight against Aegon and Aemond, and Corlys commemorates her by renaming his eponymous ship, the Sea Snake, after Rhaenys. Seems like nothing out of the ordinary, right? But it's character assassination of the highest order rooted in a stereotypically female ignorance of male fantasy as well as the sheer range of character archetypes that male fantasy fans relate to or admire.

Corlys doesn't rename the Sea Snake after his deceased wife in the book. Nor would he, because that's literally WHO HE IS. He is the legendary sailor who's sailed to places nobody from Westeros ever did, brought back treasures and exotic beasts and artefacts and hunted pirates. He becomes the Sea Snake at a young age and this identity is what sets him aside from the rest, the ordinary. It's who he is before his marriage to Rhaenys and it's who he remains even afterward.

And one excellent example of how his identity as the Sea Snake takes primacy over his marriage is the fact that he fathers his two bastards Alyn and Addam AFTER marrying Rhaenys. Because one of the "perks" of being a man of stature in a fantasy world like Planetos is that many women crave your seed, and you have many women to bed. And it's alpha and cool and stuff.

Men invented the fantasy genre with their boyhood/adolescent daydreams about fantastic knights, barbarians, pirates and what not. Corlys Velaryon is a good man, but he's not some knight in shining armor from the European chivalric tradition whose life purpose becomes his madame/partner/wife. Women like Hess cannot fathom this because they're just gynocentric as hell.

Since Sarah Hess is a boneheaded feminist, she thinks Corlys' defining trait is not that he's the Sea Snake, but... Princess Rhaenys' supportive husband. Like a boomer or millennial wifeguy from our world.

He hasn't been done as dirty as Alicent but oh boy was this a horrendous scene lol.

It's quite baffling how useful right wingers/cuckservatives have been as a weak opposition for feminism; you see how openly misandrist most feminism is and then wonder how their entire case against it is just bleating "DURR FEMINISM MAKE WOMAN WORK" over and over again lol

It's always funny when "right-wing"/"traditionalist" women let their masks slip and reveal themselves to just be cryptofeminist misandrists. Which is weird because the rw niche gives them ample space to indulge misandry as long as they just frame it in a "mEn aRe WEaK NoW" way😄

Feminists answering their questions without realizing it gotta be a meme at this point. When guys create things, they're universally enjoyable by everyone. Not always the case with female authors.