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Same anon who sent you the Jaime kills Dany Reddit theory. Another thing that I loathe is when Dany haters try and disguise their hate by stating that Dany dying or turning into the Mad Queen is just good story telling. “Oh, I know I talk negatively about Dany all the time, but I don’t hate her. I love that GRRM is subtly subverting tropes with his writing. He’s so clever!” It’s so transparent. I would actually respect these people more if they just honestly stated that they blindly hate her.

And it’s actually quite funny because Dany literally embodies several traits female characters have been villianized and put through hell for… Being infertile, sexually liberated and ambitious. Then there are just so many fairytales about “Evil Queens” in which the one who wins is some patriarchy approved good girl who sings a lot of songs and sits around waiting for a handsome prince to marry. Don’t even get me started on how the most cliche and basic western stories portrays dragons as evil monsters some lame knight kills and saves the princess.

Wanting her to die or to conform to the fallen woman trope is literally the most basic cliche to ever cliche. There’s no subversion or brilliance in coming up with those theories, it just shows that the story managed to tap into the most basic parts of the person’s soul, the subversion makes them uncomfortable and they desperately want to cling to their childish fantasies of “dark and evil queens” and “monstrous dragons”.

DANY IS THE SUBVERSION. She’s the princess who rides the dragon, there’s a knight but he’s a friend zoned loser in a world where Knights aren’t considered heroes. There are no wise Kings ruling wisely, just a bunch of dudes killing each other and putting a country through war for their personal family drama and here we have a queen who is a champion for the common people. She thinks she’s cursed with infertility but it doesn’t dictate her story, in fact, she’s the mother of dragons & Mhysa to her people. As for the sex, it’s interesting that Jon was given the ‘mixing honor and lack of sex’ narrative usually reserved for female characters.

She’s going on adventures, traveling the world, sailing the sea, conquering, ruling, sleeping around with attractive people, taming dragons… like only heroes do, she’s not the heroine holding the fort back home and staying sexually pure. Even her meeting with Jon was such a subversion, he came to her almost as a damsel in distress, was repeatedly asked to submit but stays defiant and acted as a morality filter urging her to do the right thing and save the world. She even comes to rescue him from monsters and he makes a move on her after declaring that she’s not like everyone else. That’s a bad boy/good girl in reversed right there.

So personally to me, those theories are not only transparent but also very funny.