{"id":4623,"date":"2016-03-01T18:12:46","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T12:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=4623"},"modified":"2016-03-01T18:12:46","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T12:42:46","slug":"game-of-thrones-powerful-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=4623","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCaution: White Men at Work\u201d: What Game of Thrones Season 8 Writers Don\u2019t Get about Powerful Women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span class=\"dropcap\">G<\/span>ame of Thrones<\/p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the most-popular show on the decade, has widely disappointed its fans with its final season. The hurried, normie-appeasing storyline, projection of victimhood, and rampant character inconsistencies are frustrating to long-time viewers. This is even before we address the notion that civilisation\u2019s best hope is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/politics\/political-playground-congress-rahul-gandhi-elections\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jon Snow<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a man with hierarchy on his side, which the show has begun peddling ever since Danaerys looked to inherit her father\u2019s tendency for madness. This is a show that rose to cultural supremacy by promising to \u201cbreak the wheel\u201d; now it\u2019s just a mediocre attempt at celebrating a straight, white man\u2019s newfound lineage. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/game-of-thrones-season-8-winterfell\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GoT<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is like a relationship which starts with a very misleading Tinder profile, and we know who did us wrong.<\/span>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GoT\u2019s <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dude-dominated writer\u2019s room could really use a \u201cCaution: White Men at Work\u201d sign outside its door. The tone-deaf mess that is Season Eight has shut out almost all non-male and non-white representation, and features just one woman of colour, named <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gursimransandhu.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gursimran Sandhu<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, as an uncredited staff writer. All the writing and directing credits for the six episodes of the final season go to men. Besides David Benioff and DB Weiss, the other writers involved are Dave Hill and Bryan Cogman. So, if you find <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/why-its-game-over-for-game-of-thrones-and-me\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Khaleesi<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> getting the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/meangirls.fandom.com\/wiki\/Regina_George\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regina George<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> treatment, you know where it comes from. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2017, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2017\/08\/game-of-thrones-directors-women-michelle-maclaren-final-season-1201871136\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indiewire<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published a report which stated that only four out of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GoT<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">67 episodes have been directed by a woman; one woman director out of 19 males. And the entirety of the series featured three women writers, Vanessa Taylor and Jane Espenson, who have written one episode each, and Sandhu, who does not get a writing credit. Moreover, the series is currently completely untethered from its <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/indian-elite-hindi-pseudo-angrez\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">literary roots<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; all the more reason to value distinct, well-formed perspectives across gender and race spectrums. Sansa Stark\u2019s \u201crape toughened me up\u201d analogy is so obviously a passive gaslighting method cooked up by Ivy-educated, middle-aged, white men; it asks women to look at sexual trauma as a rite of passage. Women fans, including actors <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2019\/tv\/news\/jessica-chastain-ava-duvernay-game-of-thrones-women-1203207692\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jessica Chastain and Ava DuVernay<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u00a0are justifiably livid.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Besides getting the basics wrong on abuse survivors, male screenwriters have a history of messing up when it comes to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/love-and-sex\/dating-relationships-tinder\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">legitimising<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> female leaderships. Khaleesi\u2019s oncoming Mad Queen chapter is perhaps the weakest and the most disappointing character plotting in Home Box Office realm. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GoT <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">gave Daenerys Targaryen perhaps the most prolific arc, so lively with narrative intention. Why would this woman, who has survived every kind of torture porn the male writers guild could inflict upon her, literally freed people across the oceans, shook the Dothraki <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/gender\/fought-patriarchy-voting-candidate\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">patriarchy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as she decimated an entire brethren of savage Khals, and emerged out of the fire with Kali-like ferocity, shadily beg Mr Reluctant Man-bun for his silence, to get something she deserves anyway? <\/span>\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\">In 2017, Indiewire published a report which stated that only four out of GoT\u2019s 67 episodes have been directed by a woman; one woman director out of 19 males.<\/blockquote>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The notion that power will ultimately corrupt a woman, or make her a neurotic mess, has been relentlessly used as a vehicle to keep women away from the table, both on and off screen. The trope of the powerful-but-unstable woman leader is a tried-and-tested formula which fuels <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/gender\/slut-shaming-schools-sexism-gurgaon\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">misogyny<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in pop culture. The mission to discipline the woman of influence, who\u2019s too powerful for her own good, has given way to four <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">X-Men <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">movies; it has also given us Alexandria Ocasio Cortez\u2019s Twitter. Daenerys\u2019s shift of politics from \u201cI want to break the wheel\u201d, to \u201cI\u2019mma burn ya\u201d is not just weak screenwriting but an ill-plotted fakeout to make her a glaringly bad and unlikeable leader, and it\u2019s working. You can check any and every shitposting dude\u2019s Facebook page for evidence. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then you have the \u201cbetter\u201d alternative, Jon Snow, who is simply better because he is cute and male. He is a war hero who just wants to uphold the honourable legacy of his dead father. But he has never won a single major war without the help of a woman, he came back to life because of a woman and got to ride a dragon because of a woman. Sure, it\u2019s set in a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/gender\/kerala-high-court-sexist-hostel-rules-women\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sexist<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> realm where male heirs have it easier, but Season Eight completely does away with any interest in breaking the wheel; it loves the wheel and will vote for the white dude who looks good in pictures, and has parentage on his side. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, death does not disarm the men of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GoT<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, as it affects its women leaders; Jaime Lannister, Jon Snow, Samwell Tarly have all grieved the death of their family, unremarkably and without bloodshed; Tommen Lannister even took his own life. While Daenerys, Cersei Lannister, Ellaria Sand, Olenna Tyrell, had to go on a hysterical <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/earth\/murder-price-hill-station-holiday\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">murderous<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> bender, driving home the false stereotype which affect women in political office even today. \u201cShe (Daenerys) continues to be driven by raw emotion, her rationale falling away piece-by-piece \u2006\u2014 and while that is understandable when you break down what she has endured, the narrative feels determined to shut her out in the cold, establishing a dislikable character who alienates viewers,\u201d Abby Robinson writes in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/tv\/ustv\/a27402314\/game-of-thrones-sexist-women-cersei-daenerys\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Digital Spy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A recurring motif in the show has been of wise men advisors reigning in female authority. Listening to the men in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GoT<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, aka compliance with the patriarchy, is a way of legitimising your worth as the good kind of authority. Interestingly, this is not the case for male rulers. When Jon <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/sushil-sanskari-non-toxic-bollywood-hero\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">disregarded<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Sansa\u2019s advice before Battle of the Bastards, he was made to look like the North\u2019s best hope, though it was Sansa\u2019s call to the Knights of the Vale, which ended up saving Winterfell from the hands of Ramsay.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHave you considered the best ruler might be someone who doesn\u2019t want to rule?\u201d Varys tells Tyrion about Jon. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GoT <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">only reserves such <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/love-and-sex\/idea-of-someone-love-relationships-ladybird\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">romanticism<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for members of its patriarchy, who preferably have a nice beard. Femme commanders, especially the ones who are in touch with their sexuality and can raise an army, really should pay for having it all. <\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Game of Thrones  is like a relationship which starts with a very misleading Tinder profile. 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