House Martell

House Martell ☀️

I find it funny when people in this fandom point out that the Targ tradition of incestuous marriage is uniquely bad even within the broader context of the many coerced and abusive marriages we see in Westeros and people start screeching that the Starks also did incestuous uncle/neice marriages and that everyone is unfairly hating on Targaryens and actually what we see within the Targs is just bog-standard feudalism chewing women up and spitting them out.

The Starks *do* have uncle/neice marriages in their family tree but I think its important to note that the 2 examples here of Sansa and Serena Stark marrying their half-uncles Jonnel and Edric were done in the context of a succession crisis where the North was staring down the possibility of its first female ruler in 8,000 years. And they decided that actually incest and allowing half uncles and neices to marry and letting the men's (weaker) claim supersede the women was the best option instead of just. Having a ruling Lady of Winterfell.

I wonder what this could possibly be saying in relation to incest and the oppression of women in patriarchial societies specifically?

Here's the link to the video

👏 SAY 👏 IT 👏 LOUDER 👏

"The Trojan War was started because of a woman"

"The Kurukshetra War happened because of a woman"-

How about you read those epics with your eyes open and put your single braincell actually to work for once?

Rhaegar wanted to be the special one. When there was literally

Viserys, Rhaenys, Aegon

Visenya, Rhaenys, Aegon

Rhaegar: I need THREE heads of the dragon. THREE Valyrian children of the line of Aerys and Rhaella. But my wife must never conceive again or she will die. I have only two children. WHAT CAN I DO!!!

Viserys: *raises hand*

Rhaegar: Nah, not that one. Kidnapping a teenaged girl and starting a war that ends my entire dynasty it is. I am very smart.