editorialized torpedo

I sent that post about Greenies crying about Alicent being a child bride/maritally raped/sexually assaulted.

I don’t understand how the point of my ask went completely over the head of darkblackgalaxy but I guess I shouldn’t be surprised at this point with Greens nonsensical defences. My point was that Alicent made Helaena a child bride - key word being child bride. Alicent very well could have just betrothed Helaena to Aegon and waited till she was older for them to marry but she doesn’t. Instead she subjects Helaena, her only daughter, to the same abuse Greens constantly cry about Alicent suffering.

Also, if Greens are going to cry about ‘Rhaneyra wasn’t any better for trying to marry her off to Jace’ (I’m basing this purely off of the show). Rhaenyra proposes a betrothed but proves she likely would’ve waited instead of marrying them as quickly as Alicent did Helaena/Aegon. Between the time that passes in Rhaneyra’s return to King’s Landing and the final episode Jace/Baela and Luke/Rhaena are still betrothed and not married. I can’t claim to know the book very well but it seems she didn’t try to marry them hastily in that either.

So, yeah, Rhaenyra is better than Alicent.

Has been pointed out often already, but I heavily doubt anyone on that side of the fandom is motivated by actual feminist ideals to support Alicent because of caring for her show-only child bride storyline. They easily deny empathy to canon child brides when they fall into "Targaryen foe" status in their eyes, as it becomes horribly obvious in their treatment of Dany. They cynically see it as bargain chip to shut down criticism of their trad/anti-Targ fav and IMHO that's what it was written for.