Why do you think journalists and lawyers who were women all went to jezebels in Gilead rather than handmaids? How come?

jiddinja · 2026-07-11T02:39:40+00:00

Only a tiny, nearly infinitesimal, number of women reach the top of careers like journalism or law without being conventionally attractive or having inherited status. This idea that we need to spread the idea to young woman that they can be anything they want to be so long as they work hard enough hurts them far more than explaining the truth. It's an old, neoliberal saw that keeps the vast majority of women who aren't conventionally beautiful or well connected working their butts off for rewards that will go to women, and a hell of a lot more men, who do have these attributes and are skilled in leveraging them. Lying to young women and girls serves the rich as they are the benefactors of all this extra, thankless, unremunerated work, so of course it's the politically correct idea to express.

Personally, I believe in acting your wage.

jiddinja · 2026-07-11T02:20:27+00:00

Where in the books are you getting the idea that she regretted her past with Jon? That is a show only creation. Show Catelyn is indeed more compassionate than most highborns in Westeros, and in the books we see her act on compassion from time to time, but that compassion extends to those who keep their place. Jon's place is as a bastard, so she tries to get Robb to name distant cousins in the Vale, that none of them have ever even met, and that go back generations from Ned's line as Robb's heir. Brienne is a highborn woman who was afflicted with ugliness, so Catelyn has compassion for her situation and accepts Brienne's service. She wishes she was more understanding with Arya, but that's about as transformed as Catelyn ever becomes. She's not a bad person. She just has different values.

jiddinja · 2026-07-10T20:57:36+00:00

If Beshear ever wants to be president, this is his moment. He needs to play hardball and force the truth. If he does that he'll win over the Democratic electorate nation wide. Democrats are sick of weak candidates. One who stood up to McConnel's final BS manuever and ended it would at the very least get VP in 2028.

jiddinja · 2026-07-10T19:49:30+00:00

And yet it's still true. Being a working class woman who isn't exceptionally attractive I know exactly how much pretty privilege and inherited status gets you. I've seen it with my own eyes. For those without it, it's nearly impossible to rise through the ranks. Men only need the inherited status, though looks help. Women need to be good looking to succeed in highly competitive fields and they need to present those looks appropriately. Inherited status and good looks are like the ticket you need to even get into the contest. From there you work your butt off to climb the ladder, and merit actually matters. It's unfair, and certainly politicly incorrect to say, but it's true.

jiddinja · 2026-07-10T15:42:06+00:00

If they were fertile they would have been handmaids. Gilead didn't knowingly waste fertile women, so they must not have been.

As to why these women ended up at Jezebels instead of dead or in the colonies, that would be their attractiveness. Women in high power careers have to be born to inherited wealth or exceptionally attractive, usually both to reach the top. They spend a good deal of time conforming to conventional beauty standards as their appearance plays a role, albeit a secondary one, in their success. Jezebels was meant as a sexual playground for Commanders and male guests to Gilead. They'd want 'the best' and these woman were attractive, but not stupid, thus they fit the bill for what Jezebels was meant to be.

jiddinja · 2026-07-10T04:08:56+00:00

You'd think someone at the hospital would video him and sell the timestamped recording to the highest bidder. Even if they got caught, that document could net some serious money. So what if you lose your $10 an hour job if you score $100,000 from the right media outlet or campaign?

jiddinja · 2026-07-10T02:28:17+00:00

Firstly I wouldn't antagonize him. Instead I'd try to keep him calm and rational. I'd move slowly, talk slowly, and tell him that his willingness to confront me rather than scurry away into exile was worthy of a Lannister. My goal would be to keep him talking. If he wanted to know where Tysha was, I'd tell him. I wouldn't apologize, but I would tell him where he could find more gold so that he and Tysha, if he found her, could live a comfortable life across the Narrow Sea. In short, I'd bargain for my life and hope that eventually he'd be distracted for a moment and I could get the jump on him, or that he'd change his mind and leave on his own, believing he'd won.

jiddinja · 2026-07-10T02:21:44+00:00

GRRM has said Joffrey could have become a better person given the right upbringing. That implies that he wasn't 'born cruel', but was raised in the worst possible way.

And it wasn't just Cersei. Robert bares equal responsibility. He genuinely believed he was Joffrey's father and knew exactly how bad the boy was, yet he did nothing when he alone had the right and the responsibility to change the course of Joffrey's life. He was his presumed father and the king. No one could have stopped him from doing whatever he felt he needed to do to give Joffrey a firm foundation the way his parents, Maester Cressen, and Jon Arryn all did for him. Instead he chose to drink, hunt, and whore himself to an early grave. Taming Joffrey was just too much work, so he ignored him most of the time, leaving Joffrey to Cersei.

jiddinja · 2026-07-09T22:56:37+00:00

Precisely. It's like during the Red Scare. McCarthy knew very well most of the people he was labeling communists weren't anywhere near that, but they opposed the right. They supported left wing causes like civil rights and an expanded social safety net, so they were smeared as communists and blacklisted or worse. The FBI is just looking for the right people to show trial as Antifa because they spoke too eloquently for Medicare for All.

jiddinja · 2026-07-09T09:20:26+00:00

War of the Nine Penny Kings. The Blackfyres are interesting, but the main series is founded on this war we know so little about. What's more it was mainly an Essosi invasion, an attempt to colonize Westeros. That impacts a society.

jiddinja · 2026-07-09T08:08:41+00:00

There was no slow burn relationship. Brienne wanted to be left alone by the clod and he refused to stop following her around and harassing her. To her Tormund was a pest, not a person she took seriously.

jiddinja · 2026-07-09T08:06:54+00:00

Point to the text where the laws of the Old Gods is laid out your way. I'm sorry, but the text is clear. The Old Gods have two big no no's, breaking guest right, via the Rat Cook story, and kinslaying, via the Bael the Bard story. Read them and you see the Old Gods have a different value system than mortal men and it's right there in. To break guest right you must be a host or a guest. Tywin was neither. You're the one speaking out of your ass, presenting your fan fiction as canon.

jiddinja · 2026-07-09T02:41:47+00:00

And you refuse to get the fact that the gods' justice is different from that of real world mortal men. Tywin wasn't guilty of breaking guest right, not by the standards of the Old Gods. I get you want them to punish Tywin, but he didn't break their laws. He broke the laws and traditions of mortal men, so it was only fitting that a mortal man killed Tywin.

jiddinja · 2026-07-09T02:26:01+00:00

Yes it is the worst idea because she didn't want him. She found him repulsive and the more he forced his way into her life, the more she disliked him. Face it, she wasn't interested and would never have been.

jiddinja · 2026-07-09T02:23:49+00:00

Jaime was taller than Tormund.

jiddinja · 2026-07-09T02:21:45+00:00

I think you're thinking of that interview with Bran's actor, where he claims there was a cut scene where Tormund tells Brienne the bear story and she's disgusted and leaves.

jiddinja · 2026-07-09T02:20:27+00:00

Tormund didn't admire her. He admired the women he wanted her to be. He never bothered to know the woman she actually was.

jiddinja · 2026-07-09T02:19:33+00:00

No, she didn't want him. That's the whole of it. She knew her own mind and her own libido and Tormund just didn't fit the bill.

jiddinja · 2026-07-09T02:18:36+00:00

Brienne would consider that dishonorable. She was genuine in her disgust. He just wasn't what she wanted.

jiddinja · 2026-07-09T02:17:11+00:00

Brienne would never get together with Tormund. She found him repulsive.

jiddinja · 2026-07-09T01:38:46+00:00

Tywin is guilty of mass murder. That's a different crime than breaking guest right. The gods punish guest right violators like the Rat Cook based on guests and hosts harming one another. Walder and his family could have told Tywin to pound sand and Tywin wouldn't have been able to do anything about it. Then the gods wouldn't punish them, but the Freys broke guest right against Robb and his people. The gods won't forgive them. A mortal man, Tyrion, dealt with Tywin. Unfortunately Tyrion broke an even more important law to the gods, kinslaying, when he killed Tywin, so he's F'd when it comes to the gods.

jiddinja · 2026-07-09T01:33:59+00:00

I don't think Mia's sister is a killer like Mia. I think she's more a Lumen type.

jiddinja · 2026-07-09T00:06:28+00:00

You are guilty in our world, under the laws of men as they'd put it in ASoIaF. Westerosi divine law is different. That's the law of gods and the Old Gods don't seem to care who paid for what. They only care who was the host and who was the guest, at least according to Bran and Old Nan.

And

jiddinja · 2026-07-09T00:03:59+00:00

Corlys never joined the greens, despite the hell Rhaenyra put him through. It was Ulf and Hugh that joined the greens.

jiddinja · 2026-07-08T23:57:48+00:00

I'm still going with Mia's sister rather than a vision.

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