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Originally Posted by NewChief
It's kind of shitty for GRRM to write her that way but it's the way it is and gives some credence to the frequent accusations of misogyny in his writing.
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You could call it mysogynistic, but I'd tend to call it realistic. While not a historian, he has quite a grasp of history and how the world worked when it looked something like Westeros. Cersei (and other women characters) cannot help but be defined by the role of their gender in that world. Something which is clearly touched on in the books.
I think the difficulty is the genre that he's in, where you often get social commentaries or straight-up 'fantasy' where roles (gender and otherwise) are so often turned on their heads, whereas he's writing something that's more straight-forward, not trying to portray the people in his stories in a way that reflects that perfect fantasy version of what we wish our world was.
If that makes sense...
He's really writing something more akin to historical fiction in a lot of ways.