D&D expect me to believe Arya would break up with Gendry, the man who she has loved since she was 12 years old, the man she who would “follow to the end of the world”, right after she finds out he thinks she is beautiful and that he loves her, because of something as shallow as ~i’M nOt A lAdY tHaT’s NoT mE~?
Arya Stark, who has craved love and acceptance her whole life. Arya Stark, who has always believed she was ugly and awkward. Arya Stark, who has always felt lonely because she never quite fit in. THIS Arya would turn her back on a chance to finally know peace, to have a home and a family with a man who genuinely loves her for who SHE is, who she KNOWS genuinely loves her. A man who would never ask her to change or conform. A man who would encourage her uniqueness.
She would look him in the eyes and love him, knowing her loves her back, and tell him no? For ‘feminism’? For ‘freedom’?
Do they not understand Arya at all? Do they not understand Gendry? Do they not understand women? Do they not understand how relationships work? Do they not know how to write a story? Do they not have a brain?
Exactly, they don´t have a brain. This isn´t even feminism, is FAUX feminism. I´m a feminist AF and this made so, so, so MAD!!!
You know just when I think I’m finally moving on I think about this and I get angry again.
I realized recently why I was so upset with how the show ended Gendrya and that’s because I identified so strongly with Arya. I was the unattractive girl that got made fun for her looks and for her “ungirly” interests (science and math). I wanted to feel love and acceptance, too. For a long time, I didn’t believe I could be loved either. D&D seem to be saying with how they ended Gendrya that girls like me or Arya, who don’t conform to society’s expectations of femininity, will never be truly accepted for who they are. They will either have to change or be alone, one or the other. It’s such a damaging message to send to girls out there. As it is, girls give up so many interests that aren’t considered feminine because they fear rejection and loneliness. They get that message from so many different places, it’s so sad that D&D decided to add their voice to it.