Why Arya, Cersei and Daenerys All Went Bald In The Books 😨

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@williamleo9704 7 ай бұрын

Bro really called Khal Drogo "benevolent" 💀

@LoneWulf278 7 ай бұрын

I was so lost. 😂

@KingInBlack69 7 ай бұрын

In the books he doesn't force himself on her the moment they're married, he waits until she comes to him.

@hi-ls6lt 7 ай бұрын

@@KingInBlack69yes he does. This just shows you missed out on a bit in her chapter. He took her from behind each night and she was grateful because he wouldn’t see the tears on her face. The end of that chapter is when she took some control.

@whawhawhawhaaaa 7 ай бұрын

@KingInBlack69 only on their wedding night. after that he rapes her every night to the point where dany considers suicide.

@Tyler_W 7 ай бұрын

@KingInBlack69 even if that were true, she is literally a child bride. There is nothing about that situation that isn't inherently abusive. She basically gaslights herself into believing that she's actually in a healthy and loving marriage so she can just keep it together, and their "relationship" absolutely messed her up as it naturally would mess up anyone forced into being a child bride...

@Phantom19913 7 ай бұрын

I think it also symbolized their own rebirth Danearys needed to learn to stop hoping someone else would conquer Westeros and she would need to do it herself. Aya had to learn to fend for herself and that she needed to be more powerful to protect those who matter to her. Cersei on the other hand failed to grow she just found strong puppets who could fix her mistakes instead Qyburn and the mountain.

@Christina-vp3nf 7 ай бұрын

yesss definitely and i love how their rebirths go hand in hand with the whole hair hold onto to memories and emotions thing :))

@James-sk4db 7 ай бұрын

#newhairnewme am I right

@smoqueed44 6 ай бұрын

How does shaving your head equal a rebirth? Lmao.

@rhyministermc 6 ай бұрын

@@smoqueed44 I have seen numerous women change hairstyles, including cutting off all of their hair as a symbolic rebirth of themselves, so I would say that it isn't quite as farfetched as you'd think.

@jmeds94 5 ай бұрын

…necessitated by the lack of male leadership in their lives

@thescentthicc4103 7 ай бұрын

“all have their heads shaved bald.” *proceeds to show drawings where not a single one of them is actually bald*

@connaeris8230 7 ай бұрын

Arya and Cersei were not shaved bald yeah, but Daenerys had all her hair burned in the fire. It's interesting how in the show the one who actually went bald in the books was the only one to keep her hair long.

@jenniferbrent9025 7 ай бұрын

Show watcher only here. Could they have CGI'd bald from the chopped off hair? Otherwise the ones depicted with hair cut or burned off certainly don't match the books (as so many things don't).

@Dreamfyre 7 ай бұрын

⁠⁠@@connaeris8230Yes, Cersei was shaved bald. All the hair on her body was shaved off, it wasn’t just a short haircut as we saw on the show.

@shireeshbhardwaj2167 7 ай бұрын

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@carastone3473 7 ай бұрын

Because it happened in the books, but not the show?

@mslizzieforbes 7 ай бұрын

Naur not describing Aryas dad and Danny’s husband the same way-

@CanItAlready 6 ай бұрын

He's trying to lead into Martin's point about patriarchy, but yeah, it sounds wrong.

@erinw.9256 Ай бұрын

@@CanItAlready its so fucking wrong

@aliviatabb1386 11 күн бұрын

I mean... Dany WAS a child when she was given to Khal Drogo and he was grown sooooo... Might sound gross, but it's accurate lol

@jesusgabrielcarmonamedina1597 7 ай бұрын

I do love when seamongly obvious things have another layer of meaning.

@Catherine.Dorian. 7 ай бұрын

Except Eowyn basically did exactly this and did it while remaining feminine.

@Christina-vp3nf 7 ай бұрын

⁠⁠⁠@@Catherine.Dorian.who is eowyn??

@Catherine.Dorian. 7 ай бұрын

@@Christina-vp3nf that hurt lol, from Lord of the Rings? She literally kills one of the strongest bad guys but she does it with her long hair and with the words “I am no man” and the moment war is done she falls in love and moves on, she faces bad times and does fight but her reason is to protect those she loves, not for power or vengeance but for love. She does that moment protecting her uncle whom she gives peace to in his passing. She is very much a motherly figure and a womanly figure throughout, she never has to act like a man

@somebodynowhere2895 7 ай бұрын

Lotr is not a feminist work? The asoiaf books focus so much more on women and politics. Lotr doesn't even have a lot of female characters. The ENTIRE fellowship is men.

@jollyquinn430 6 ай бұрын

@somebodynowhere2895 Nobody said LOTR is a feminist work.

@theblackheart5727 7 ай бұрын

I wouldn’t call Drogo “benevolent.” At all.

@morticiag 7 ай бұрын

To his wife he was benevolent. Maybe not at first, but she grew to love him.

@Chernobyl_Reactor4 7 ай бұрын

⁠⁠@@morticiagGrowing to love someone is Stockholm syndrome, that is not a good sign.

@morticiag 7 ай бұрын

@@Chernobyl_Reactor4 Depends on the situation and the people, I guess. Possibly, for Daenarys, it was Stockholm Syndrome.

@Chernobyl_Reactor4 7 ай бұрын

⁠@@morticiagI think it definitely is, she learned to love him so she could cope with her situation. It is what most women in the series went through. The body will do anything to try and make traumatic situations even tolerable. I think if someone never wished to go somewhere in the first place, it automatically is Stockholm syndrome. Dany never wished to go, she said so in both the show and the books.

@Whats_a_ZJ 7 ай бұрын

She learned to love getting that pipe.

@achilles7607 7 ай бұрын

I always saw daenerys burnt hair as her first victory with the birth of her dragons and from then on growing and braiding her hair like the dothraki with every new victory she wins: freeing the unsullied and having an army, conquering meereen and freeing the slaves and everything else. The show shows her hair longer and more braided with time perfectly

@nunyabiznes33 7 ай бұрын

I don't see it is as losing feminity but more symbolizing how vulnerable they've become after the loss and that they have to start anew. Also seeing everyone's comment, Drogo is Dany's "benefactor" and he is to his people. His loss would have meant the end for Dany if it wasn't for the birth of the dragons - she's supposed to be escorted back to Vaes Dothrak and become a dosh khaleen, ending her time in the game before it even started.

@An_actual_walrus 7 ай бұрын

Idk, they lost their hair but Arya got a hound, Cersei got a mountain and Dany got dragons.

@Keptaro 7 ай бұрын

Asha/Yara Greyjoy, Meera Reed and Brienne of Tarth had Patriarch figures who raised them (mostly) right, so they don't depend on them for survival or protection anymore

@SamaelLightbringer-mm9np Ай бұрын

Title: All went bald. Video: None of them went bald. They just cut their hair short.

@mcvenne8935 7 ай бұрын

Drogo is benevolent? Uhhhh....

@SageGreenBone 6 ай бұрын

Bro called Drogo benevolent 😭😭

@makemeasandwich9781 7 ай бұрын

Drogo... benevolent??!

@lonelygovernment4544 7 ай бұрын

hello book reader here. I've noticed that lots of people that have watched the show seem to dislike kahl drogo. What did he do that makes you say that? Did you watch the show, read the books or both? Because i can't really recall him doing anything horrible in the books (as far as game of thrones and the dothraki culture go) so I'm kinda confused here

@tamaiofthesea 7 ай бұрын

@@lonelygovernment4544I think some of it is the fact that he’s a known warmonger and slaughters peaceful people on the regular but I may be wrong

@arpansaha2111 7 ай бұрын

@@lonelygovernment4544in the show he raped daenerys

@forrestdorman4870 7 ай бұрын

In the books while it is VERY disgusting he’s having relations with a young danny he never touches her without getting her ready. Their first night he gets her ready and does his best not to hurt her. He still a barbaric warlord that rapes and murders but he clearly gave a shit about Danny.

@ezdub5762 7 ай бұрын

@@lonelygovernment4544I don’t really know either, maybe because Dany was basically sold to him but that’s what every daughter of a Ancient house goes through though. It’s not like he intentionally abused her, but I guess people romanticize it in their head but on screen that’s not what actually happens? Either way, I recognize it could’ve been a lot worse and was actually the best thing that could’ve happened to her in the situation.

@luke1397 7 ай бұрын

I’ve never heard him say this.

@GrumpyShreckcat 7 ай бұрын

Not entirely sure I agree with that idea. Why should a women be stripped of her feminity in order to survive,simply because the man above her died? Does her feminity make her weak and unable to survive. Or does the fact that that because the man above her died mean that no power can be gained in her feminity? Although this is George R. R Martin's writing. And everything is left up to interpretation.

@18brownman 7 ай бұрын

Well you can't survive the wild with femininity thus you must become masculine to survive

@skj9163 6 ай бұрын

Often times a girl/woman must become more masculine to survive when she is by herself. Take a look around you in real life. The more feminine women have someone they can turn to for protection. Whether that be in the form of a parent, sibling, friend or spouse, or the luxury of wealth. They have someone backing them and subsequently the world treats them better. Those without that have to deal with life by themselves are usually more in their masculine and are forced to fight to survive. And in the stories, it appears when it happens that is when they must start to fight for what want or need on their own, so a more masculine look is adopted (if only by circumstances). Side note: I always thought it interesting that Cersei adopted her sons hair cuts in the last seasons.

@Methus3lah 7 ай бұрын

Calling Drogo a “benevolent patriarch” is honestly pretty disgusting Edit: Stop making excuses for him. He raped his child-bride. Multiple times. Not only that, but he did it to get her pregnant, which is even MORE disgusting. Do you know how ill-prepared a 14-year-old’s body is to give birth? She could’ve died giving birth. It’s even reasonable to theorize that she DID die giving birth, and was resurrected in the shadow tent. And that’s just Daenerys. How many thousands of people did Drogo brutalize? How many did he kill, how many did he rape, how many did he enslave? Every one of them had their lives destroyed by Drogo. He’s not only not benevolent, he is MALEVOLENT. And if you disagree with that I genuinely think you need to learn better reading comprehension skills.

@LoneWulf278 7 ай бұрын

Very much so. 😭

@Sienisota 7 ай бұрын

In the eyes of his men, he was. He started treating Daenerys a lot better than an average wife after she realised she had to try charm him to survive. But in the eyes of the women who weren't treated well by their partners, obviously not. The point of women supporting patriarchal systems is that they have been lucky that *their* protective male figure was kind that gave their women power.

@queenxx1690 7 ай бұрын

But it is truth when he died his bloodriders were ready to kill her but when he was alive no one could touch her not even her brother

@Yoruichi_16 7 ай бұрын

Compared to the rest of the dothrakis who saw women as meat only useful for sex and to bear children he was very kind to her.

@ellioteden5602 7 ай бұрын

@queenxx1690 Dothraki bloodriders are supposed to die with their Khal, so with it having looked like his wife allowed a foreigner she "saved" to use blood magic on him to heal him caused his death, it also meant for their death too.

@Tyler_W 7 ай бұрын

Idk if I'd call a brutal warlord who married a child bride "a benevolent patriarch." Dany basically gaslit herself into believing that she wasn't in an incredibly messed up situation, and her "relationship" with her grapist absolutely messed her up in the head.

@jasonphoenix292 7 ай бұрын

It symbolises rebirth. It could also just be what it is. Arya haircut hides her identity, Dany goes in a bonfire, and Cersei is required to be shamed for her sins. Don’t really see the patriarchy thing here.

@vangu2918 6 ай бұрын

All of those so called necessary things were created by men, so patriarchy.

@CanItAlready 6 ай бұрын

How did the dothraki feel about a woman leading them in the books? In the books was Arya's hair cut also because the road wasn't safe for a girl? I ask because I've never read the books.

@user-ze3tq9hf9i 6 ай бұрын

@@CanItAlreadyThe few dothtaki that stays with her venerate her, because of the dragon birth miracle. Yes, Arya cut her hair to pretend to be a boy because the roads in war time are more dangerous for a girl.

@jmeds94 5 ай бұрын

The struggles all 3 later go through are only necessitated by the absence of their male protectors. It is also rebirth… due to having to stand on their own two feet now. It isn’t a sexist metaphor if that’s how you’re interpreting it. Women do not have independence in this world, therefore it is a great trial to be able to navigate independently. Which I would consider a very feminist/egalitarian message.

@xaevius5319 5 ай бұрын

@@jmeds94 nah i think he's just saying it might be just what it is their hair got short. No deeper meaning no other subtext. This is really a thing that some fans get annoying with. They try to put deeper meaning into every little thing and read too much into it when they don't do the occam's razor thing where the most obvious answer is probably the right one

@s.w.d4010 7 ай бұрын

This doesn’t make any sense at all. Daenerys’s hair burned off and she gained 3 dragons which made her more powerful. Being powerful doesn’t mean Daenerys is less feminine. In the books she is still described as very beautiful and feminine while having short hair. Cersei didn’t “strip her femininity” in order to survive after Tywin died. Cersei’s head was shaved against her will because the Faith wanted to punish her. Cersei’s femininity is her source of power and she uses it to manipulate the Kingsguard and other men around her. Not to mention Cersei is one of the most misogynistic characters in the entire series. She is down with the patriarchy. Another reason why this doesn’t make sense is that in the books women who present as masculine don’t gain more power they are actually looked down upon and face the threat of violence. For example Brienne presents more masculine than feminine and she is threatened with violence & sexual assault nearly everyday. Danny Flint dressed as a man to join the Night’s Watch and she was brutally murdered.

@johnpaullaizure7330 6 ай бұрын

lmao someone ate too much goyslop and took their masters definition of femininity for goyim too seriously.

@vangu2918 6 ай бұрын

Brianne probably presented as masculine because she was attack first not afterwards. Women who present as feminine got r*ped all the time in that story so what is the excuse for that?

@Mumbles0225 6 ай бұрын

I have a feeling they worded the idea very poorly, here... I think it was supposed to be the idea that they were no longer able to live the servile life of an average woman in those times without a strong male supporter. After their losses, they had to come out the other side able to protect themselves. Femininity wasn't a terrific power in the setting of those books, so in the literal sense, they needed to be more masculine to protect themselves.

@johnpaullaizure7330 6 ай бұрын

@@Mumbles0225 Women weren't "servile" in medieval times....they worked as much as men did and were respected by good men, almost like assholes and criminals existed for all of recorded history? Weird. anyway they were pretty much equal in every sense, they could own land, no one voted so of course they could not, they ruled as queens when all the men in the royal family died, not really sure where people think they were not equal, besides military conscription. fighting? Until modern firearms were perfected of course they weren't. That's just biology...physical strength? Again biology. Usually people who think women were servile for doing housework are just ignorant, how many women would be strong enough to drag a deer back on a sled or cart after a hunt? owning horses was not common. how many women can lift a deer onto a rack to gut and skin it to eat? not many. women did housework because they wanted to contribute not to sit around all day in a time period with almost no books to read (when most people could not anyway), no netflix to watch and nothing to do. try it today just sit around and do nothing, all day, how many days until you go mad?

@Mumbles0225 6 ай бұрын

@@johnpaullaizure7330 sorry, I suppose I should've said "medieval times in westeros". I was in the mindset of the show and book setting, where women are absolutely not treated equal anywhere but north of the wall and Dorne. I don't think he necessarily wrote this story from a real-world medieval perspective. Also, your description of medieval times are accurate for the average person, but this story isn't about the average, it's about courtly people where women absolutely did go mad from boredom (visible in one of the first scenes where Arya throws her embroidery down because she finds the average "servile" womanly activities boring). For the record, I'm not saying any of this is fair, right, or how or should be, but unfortunately I'm not Martin so you'll have to take your fight elsewhere.

@neilhannan5112 7 ай бұрын

Why does This character has a Lost tooth George Martin Giving a PowerPoint 10 page essay why the lose of the tooth is important to the story and Foreshadowing 😂❤

@zzulm 5 ай бұрын

His imagination is a labyrinth with all these details.

@kengillespie7797 7 ай бұрын

I've been reading and re- reading the books; and watching and re-watching the show for YEARS and I never noticed this! Brilliant observation!

@justarandomgirlvx3578 7 ай бұрын

A very flawed observation actually. Dany was never stripped of her femininity at all. She is the literal embodiment of mother after she was left unburnt and the dragons were born. I think it would make much more sense if a shaved/bald head means a new beginning. Cersei feels like a new person, Dany feels like she was just reborn, Arya is stepping out into the unknown as well.

@renferal5290 7 ай бұрын

I really enjoy these shorts of yours. I'm on the second book, and it is fascinating reading all the stuff the show left out

@aishaaisha6626 7 ай бұрын

He really misinterprete stuff most of the time

@niranjanrajesh1058 7 ай бұрын

@aishaaisha6626 yea some blatant lies too

@Thereisanalienpresenceonearth 7 ай бұрын

This channel sucks in terms of actual lore telling

@anatorres9715 5 ай бұрын

Not really we all have our own observations and interpretations.@@aishaaisha6626

@layzboi2250 7 ай бұрын

In what universe is Drogo benevolent?!

@dr.anaB777 7 ай бұрын

Sansa had her benevolent patriarch (first ned and then maybe tyrion) taken away too, yet she retained her hair. 😂 I don't think you need to lose your femininity to survive. There are plenty of characters in the books who are feminine and strong- margaery, catelyn, arianne and sansa (later on) off the top of my head. Also daenerys never lost her femininity. This theory is pretty stupid ngl. If martin thinks this way, i think he doesn't understand female characters and women in general. A woman doesn't need to be a masculine girl boss to be strong. While tomboys like yara and brienne are great and i love them, being masculine isn't the only way to survive adversity.

@romulusmariuscaesar9716 7 ай бұрын

Well what keeps Sansa safe if her femininity plus baelish serves as her protector now

@sayuriwickramasingha1560 7 ай бұрын

totally agree

@Ashbrash1998 7 ай бұрын

With Sansa it might be her identity, I could see an argument about how instead of losing their feminity, but basically changing themselves unto something else.

@dr.anaB777 7 ай бұрын

@@romulusmariuscaesar9716 baelish isn't benevolent. If we extend the goal post to any older guy companion/protector being the benevolent patriarch, then jaqen is arya's benevolent patriarch, barriston is dany's and qyburn is cersei's so wouldn't that negate the need for shaving their heads?

@romulusmariuscaesar9716 7 ай бұрын

@@dr.anaB777 it would not be the case due to timeline as Sansa is picked up everytime as soon as she loses her patriarch, and baelish isn't benevolent but neither is drogo.

@Jakegothicsnake 7 ай бұрын

Arya, I get. Daenerys, I thought was just a consequence of going into Drogo’s funeral pyre. And Cersei, I thought that was part of her Walk of Atonement punishment for her sins….

@somebodynowhere2895 7 ай бұрын

I mean it still applies considering the events that lead up to their hair being cut are directly influenced by the fact their patriarch died. It doesn't have to be as direct as Arya's reason to make the point GRRM is trying to.

@TR-my1wz 7 ай бұрын

Well I had to have my hair shaved 2 days ago because of recent medications and it doesn't help that I also suffer with alopecia. I thought I was going to be sad, but I actually feel free.

@naheleshiriki5496 7 ай бұрын

I wouldn't call it stripping their femininity in order to survive. What they did was entirely cultural-based so more like stripping them of the gender role that they were initially defined by. There are lots of cultures out there where what's considered feminine/masculine is completely different from our own perspective. A fall from grace as it were from the high status that so heavily defined what they were and were not allowed to do. However, this can be just as freeing, chaos is a ladder after all.

@romulusmariuscaesar9716 7 ай бұрын

Except the society of Westeros is similar to medieval Europe so it does apply here.

@rachelfox8108 7 ай бұрын

@@romulusmariuscaesar9716 Daenerys was living in Dothraki society, where the men grew their hair long and braided it, and only cut it if they lost a battle -- very different to Westerosi (or indeed Medieval English) society.

@CCCCCCCCC11 7 ай бұрын

I would argue that stripping them of their femininity, and stripping them from their gender roles is pretty much the same thing.

@justarandomgirlvx3578 7 ай бұрын

@@CCCCCCCCC11Dany was never stripped off her femininity. The birth of the dragons was a wonder and sight of hope for everyone. She is literally the mother of dragons, what is more feminine than the word mother? Dany's story in AGOT is all about Daenerys taking control over her own life as well. So i dont think her loss of hair indicates any loss of her "femininity".

@etherean369 7 ай бұрын

But if that is what defined their femininity in that culture then they would have felt that way, right? They don't know of other cultures/aren't influenced by them, or?

@kubrakaragulle9484 7 ай бұрын

I thought Arya's hair got cut by Yoren with a knife, not shaved and that was actually different from Cersei and Daenesry since their hairs are gone completely. But still a great point.

@Caramelo23606 7 ай бұрын

How is Drogo benevolent?

@princessofskill 7 ай бұрын

In the books he is. He didn't even force dany he loved her. Not like the show.

@haywoodjablowmi1427 7 ай бұрын

@@princessofskill what about that : "Even the nights brought no relief. Khal Drogo ignored her when they rode, even as he had ignored her during their wedding, and spent his evenings drinking with his warriors and bloodriders, racing his prize horses, watching women dance and men die. Dany had no place in these parts of his life. She was left to sup alone, or with Ser Jorah and her brother, and afterward to cry herself to sleep. Yet every night, some time before the dawn, Drogo would come to her tent and wake her in the dark, to ride her as relentlessly as he rode his stallion. He always took her from behind, Dothraki fashion, for which Dany was grateful; that way her lord husband could not see the tears that wet her face, and she could use her pillow to muffle her cries of pain. When he was done, he would close his eyes and begin to snore softly and Dany would lie beside him, her body bruised and sore, hurting too much for sleep. Day followed day, and night followed night, until Dany knew she could not endure a moment longer. She would kill herself rather than go on . . ." -AGOT, chapter 23.

@chrisrubin6445 6 ай бұрын

@@princessofskillnot in their fist encounter, but in her later chapters Dany tries to dissociate, but talks about how she cried every day from Drogo raping her

@tiabeaniesemotionalsupportdmon 5 ай бұрын

@@princessofskill ummmm, he literally takes her anytime he wants. Even when her inner thighs are chafed, bloody, and raw from riding horseback. She talks about how much she cries and wishes for death. If that isn’t r@pe, then idk what is!🙄🤮

@Ashbrash1998 7 ай бұрын

I wouldn't call going bald = losing feminity, but the three you mention and other women changing their identity into something else to survive. Sansa can fit with them, as she also had to lie and change herself in kings landing and in the Vale to survive.

@liamcassidy5992 7 ай бұрын

Calling Drogo benevolent is certainly a take (he literally groomed Dany and made a Surprise Pikachu face when his juvenile wife couldn’t carry a baby to term)

@courtneyalameda8275 6 ай бұрын

2 things; Dany's hair being burnt off is not the same of having your head shaved and Drogo was NOT benevolent 😅

@darknessfalls6980 12 күн бұрын

Wow! In my culture, if our father, husband, or grandfather dies, we daughters, wives, or granddaughters have to cut our hair, but it’s a sign of mourning and respect.

@geroy57 7 ай бұрын

Arya was never shaven bald lol

@larissaorozco3255 7 ай бұрын

No, not after Ned her hair was cut very short and was cut again after the red wedding by the hound , but it was not bald till she was in bravos and needed to do it for a role she was playing in for the house of black and white.

@anatorres9715 5 ай бұрын

She was later in Bravos and her haircuts were worse in the book than they were in the show

@Chernobyl_Reactor4 7 ай бұрын

No, I have PTSD again. I have only recently recovered from what the High Sparrow did. I only have closure because of the show, no thanks to the books. This show left me with many emotional scars, especially 2-5.

@joaop4585 7 ай бұрын

You either should have been +16yo or maybe look for a therapist for the amount of mental problems you have. It aint no way that was harsh enough to cause PTSD, bloody and cruel? Yes. But chill out on this normatization of mental illness

@Chernobyl_Reactor4 7 ай бұрын

⁠⁠⁠@@joaop4585Toto, it is called hyperbole. I went exaggerating. You don’t even know my age, you know nothing about me. Don’t you dare assume anything about me again. The one with mental problems is likely someone who lacks insight onto something as basic as hyperbole. I am a literal psychologist myself. It is definitely cruel and unusual the things characters endure on this show. People had to endure this. An actual person had to march a Croatian street unclothed. You know nothing.

@joaop4585 7 ай бұрын

Kinda dramatic for someone that wants to be taken seriously. Chill, bruh

@irenictea218 7 ай бұрын

Are you okay???

@AngelOfTime. 7 ай бұрын

@@Chernobyl_Reactor4 you are a psychologist and yet you use PTSD so insensitively like it's not a serious mental illness? 🧐

@violetembers2532 6 ай бұрын

Ok, Mr. Martin with the social commentary! Snaps to him.

@cerdic6586 5 ай бұрын

When my hair falls out, I shall console myself with the knowledge that I am being reborn.

@marko9695 5 ай бұрын

I'd call Khal Drogo a lot of things... violent, badass, even kind at times. But benevolent? 😂

@themainevent381 5 ай бұрын

You know sometimes a blue curtain means that the curtain is blue

@sabrinaleedance 18 сағат бұрын

I like how in the show they just pretended that fire can't burn hair lol

@eddyesdras 7 ай бұрын

Wwwwow outstanding take! ❤ Ty Very much

@chivalrousfist5073 7 ай бұрын

Ned gets killed after a successful* coup its just not his coup succeeds

@aliasfakename3159 5 ай бұрын

Dany actually spent some time starving in the Red Wastes so the first pic of her with hollow cheeks makes sense

@alexiciamoore5642 7 ай бұрын

Arya said it herself. It’s safer to travel as a boy than it is a girl. If I’m being honest, it still that way in real life today. That’s why I don’t leave the house without my dog, my knife, or my brother. If I ain’t got one of them with me, whatever is outside and needs my attention can wait. 🤷🏾‍♀️

@lenibeni7421 6 ай бұрын

Well living life like that is truly depressing. You give those things so much power over you… this is the worst. Those things can be scary, but we should face them. Giving those bad people so much power over your own life is so much more than they deserve! No one should feel that way because of some dark souls out there who don’t deserve to be called human beings. People who have to live in so much fear… I know it’s hard, but being that paranoid harms yourself so badly…. Not necessarily more than such an event… but it comes close. You can’t live freely, even though you deserve to. It’s the age old question of life life to the fullest in the space of time you have or rather go into hiding, don’t enjoy it out of fear and you may grow to be far older but did you really LIVE that much longer?

@Sleepyhead_22 6 ай бұрын

@@lenibeni7421I agree with this vibe of this but I totally agree with the OP. Though I don’t need my brother to go out, I do stay hyper-vigilant when I’m out, especially at night. Just need to balance that vigilance with living your life. I would say being indoors more is far better than being traumatised in a way you can barely recover from. I have a friend who experienced it and she developed PTSD. She can’t leave her flat without both a male and female friend, slowly she is trying to do things like getting the mail on her own but she struggles. So it’s very understandable why the OP feels the way she feels, at her own pace she will figure out what works best for her. Having a self-defence tool, a spray, and a personal alarm may bring some more peace of mind. It’s shitty that women have to do this, and it’s even worse since they are blamed for the actions of men. Blamed for the trauma they’ve endured. You look at how women are assaulted, kidnapped, murdered etc and you think: “What life is that? Why go out at all if this happens so often?” Like seriously I don’t go to clubs ever, those places terrify me lol.

@madakenabru6458 6 ай бұрын

Well in Poland everyone can go outside (even at night), and we will be perfectly fine.

@tiabeaniesemotionalsupportdmon 5 ай бұрын

@@lenibeni7421 Women have to be on alert and protect themselves, because no one is going to come do it for us, and we have learned not to expect any help, so we do what we can for ourselves. It is sad that we have to live this way? It’s really just a reflection of the shit we have to deal with on the daily. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@xaevius5319 5 ай бұрын

@@lenibeni7421 "you give those things so much power" yeah, thats why its called a threat, they do have power over you. Do you think a robber is just gonna ask nicely to give him your money? No, he has the threat of violence at his disposal. This is honestly so dumb, i wish you never say this to anyone else. How would u answer for anyone that you've told this "advice" to if they ever get harmed cuz u disarmed them from feeling the need to be safe over "vibes". "Power over you my ass" this aint words we're talking bout actual people who harm you buddy. U wanna getyourself unready in that situation its fine just dont rope someone else into it smh

@zahzahmasterchi 7 ай бұрын

Wow I never thought about that! Good point

@gaghhuh2943 5 ай бұрын

For some reason when I was r*ped I shaved my head. I never really understood why I did it until I read asoiaf and realized this parallel

@nmmknh8997 4 ай бұрын

I love the last sentence. George is a genuis. It's way too true.

@CsySnw 26 күн бұрын

bro's always glazing Drogo, I'm starting to get suspicious

@irsmohsen4833 6 ай бұрын

Amazing idea!

@markanthony1004 7 ай бұрын

Yo after all these years since I first read A Game of Thrones in 2004 I never even thought to connect this

@SuperstitiousWolf 6 ай бұрын

you dont need to not be feminine in order to grow and survive , as if being feminine is being weak , or as if a boy cant be feminine , and still be strong in certain ways

@sweetpotatofries99 3 ай бұрын

Arya shaves her head regularly among the Braavosi mummers

@bradshaw2244 6 ай бұрын

Vocab word of the day “benevolent”

@Deadvld 5 ай бұрын

Well done ♡

@barrymckockinner2932 7 ай бұрын

This is actually a thing in my culture where widows go bald, might be coincidental but S/O George RR

@xxDeeMmmVeexx 6 ай бұрын

I think it symbolized a rebirth for each woman… none of them were the same person afterwards.

@elizabethedwards4686 7 ай бұрын

……khal benevolent? Hahahahahahahah

@claudiacarrascogonzalez4295 7 ай бұрын

Wow nunca lo había pensado se esa manera, pero eso tiene mucho sentido. En un mondo como got, ser mujer es un riesgo 😢

@ILIRIEA 6 ай бұрын

This a really clever idea

@canteventhough 7 ай бұрын

Right, and if you can't trust your patriarch, what will you really do? Or if your patriarch dies because he can't stop throwing shade at his best friends wife. Some people don't deserve the trust that the patriarch demands, but they still want to have that power over others, and this falls apart very quickly.

@AveRegina_ Ай бұрын

Benevolent Khal Drogo... We aren't watchin the same thing I guess 😅

@cassiuscoleman4624 21 күн бұрын

Ned wasn't staging a coup. He was simply out maneuvered by honor less Lannisters.

@vishalmishra579 4 күн бұрын

Daenerys hair is burned again in ADwD when she rides Drogon

@thiago44933 7 ай бұрын

Benevolent Pathriach Figure and it's literally her r@pist

@stephaniezolnai4452 7 ай бұрын

It's actually funny cuz when my dad passed I cut my hair really short. I had beautiful long hair before he pass. I felt like I lost something when I lost him. So I cut my hair to show my loss.

@t-firstnames-lastname4506 7 ай бұрын

Wow that's deep!! Facts!!

@solinatuulia4743 7 ай бұрын

Dany and Cercei are still feminine with short hair. Arya was already a tomboy before her hair was cut

@nachoalfonso2614 7 ай бұрын

To most people in the comments: "benevolent"... to THEM. Not in general. Kal was mostoy benevolent towards Dany

@MichaelForde521 4 ай бұрын

The narrator said “George’s idea is that patriarchy is great when the man is on top and the woman is under his protection …. “ I’ve never heard the author say anything even close to that statement.

@TH3DUDE0075 7 ай бұрын

Do you have an actual quote from George on this? Because it sounds like you are really stretching things here - it’s more likely that he wanted to symbolize re-birth for each of them. Arya was reborn as a “no one” as this is when she first begins to strip away her “Arya stark” persona, Dany was reborn as the queen/mother of dragons and must discard her life as the loyal/abused sister of the king, Cersei is reborn as a true villain/tyrant - she previously did evil things and was far from a hero but from this point forward she is going to truly enter mad queen levels of depravity which is so ironic since Jamie was the one who killed the mad king (and he is a younger brother like the prophecy said who kill Cersei),

@viljaminieminen6925 7 ай бұрын

If there is some sort of a bridge to our world then I afraid that This would only work in medieval setting and only in nobility ranks.

@LadyCoyKoi 7 ай бұрын

In many religious practices, even in Catholicism, Judaism and Islam, there are rituals of which women need to shave their heads in order to embodied the rebirth of a new life... new life in the churches or through new life as a married woman. In Santeria, Lucumi, Ifa, isese, etc, initiates shave their heads in order to restart their lives in the religion and make way into priesthood. Depending the household you got crowned in, you also have strict laws to follow. Women shaving their heads is very symbolic in many cultures, mainly as a sign of rebirth for new life.

@HenriqueErzinger 5 ай бұрын

Khal Drogo wasnt exactly a benevolent figure to her in the books

@alilovewell 4 ай бұрын

Anyone else here bc he called Drogo "benevolent"? 😂

@jjnewbold 5 ай бұрын

Thumbnail illustration looks like Léa Seydoux

@sardonically-inclined7645 6 ай бұрын

No. Not in Cersei's case. Her choosing not to be a spiteful idiot would've prevented that just fine.

@astrinymris9953 4 ай бұрын

Only Cersei's head was actually shaved bald. It's true that Daenerys had her hair burned off, but due to the fire she entered of her own will. Arya's hair was just cut to stubble so she could pass as a boy more easily though everyone who saw her while she was roaming Flea Bottom between the coup and Ned's execution took her for a boy already. But it did lower the risk that anyone who knew Arya as a short-haired girl would spot her among Yoren's conscripts for the Wall.

@peterminos5604 6 ай бұрын

Tywin was dead when cersi was taken by the high sparrow

@cobra8888 5 ай бұрын

Meanwhile Brittney Spears shaved her head AND her benevolent patriarchal figure is still alive.

@ebonyblack7272 6 ай бұрын

I think benefactor would be a better term for the other two men on this list.

@livewellwitheds6885 5 ай бұрын

benevolent patriarch- aka her warlord husband 😂

@yurp7444 6 ай бұрын

Also that's the point when they had to level up. Arya turning into the 'boy' is the beginning of her rode to Xena warrior princess. Khaleesi bald is accompanied by 3 baby dragons. Cersei bald is when the 'walk of shame' rage turns her Super Saiyan. 🚶🏾‍♂️

@nostoneunturned7641 6 ай бұрын

That's really smart

@TheTruthIsGonnaHurt 6 ай бұрын

*FACTS* In times of Peace, women can let their hair down.. In times of War, nobody got time for pretty hair.. Reminds me of Sakura cutting her hair when she decided to get serious in the original Naruto series.

@dimvots6729 5 күн бұрын

Arya cut her hair because she had to hide her identity because Cercei was looking for her to take her as a hostage, Denerys lost her hair in a fire where she sacrificed a woman to hatch dragon eggs, Cercei hair was cut as punishment for some of her crimes. Video creator The patriarchy ........

@wrantheim6777 6 ай бұрын

I'm no native speaker and confuses benevolent and malevolent all the time, which is why I was pretty confused at first.

@soxpeewee 14 күн бұрын

Reverse Samson type idea similar to GI Jane

@Crow29803 5 ай бұрын

Dani’s hair was burned off, completely with only strangles of black left. I wouldn’t call that burned off. Only one that got shaved was Cersei. Arya was cut short at best.