I Stand By Daenerys ~ the Greatest AntiVillain
The redeeming value of unmerited hardship
Table of Contents
· Table of Contents
· Mother of Dragons — Breaker of Chains — The Protector of the Realm — Our One True Queen
· “Throw away your slave name. …Choose a name that fills you with pride.” ✊🏻👏👏
· My March 15th, 2014 Facebook post about Dany
· A Few Quotes Aligned with Queen Daenerys
· Other Notable Anti-Villains (all women)
· The End
· Of Forgiveness
· Inter-Minority Prejudice
· Sidenotes
∘ Qualculation of Social Capital
∘ Elf Lives Matter
Mother of Dragons — Breaker of Chains — The Protector of the Realm — Our One True Queen
I originally fell in love with Queen Daenerys when I started watching #GameOfThrones in 2014. She is the most complex, tragic, fascinating, inspiring, & multidimensional character I’ve ever seen on TV!
A true anti-villain who “genuinely starts with the best intentions” (Emilia Clarke) but painfully comes to realize the truths of the world she inhabits ♥️⚔️
Daenerys brings justice to injustice everywhere she goes along her journey.
“Throw away your slave name. …Choose a name that fills you with pride.” ✊🏻👏👏
The flaw of perfection is the absence of variance; perfection can’t evolve (something that’s perfect doesn’t need/ resists change).
Daenerys is the imperfection, the variance, the disruption to the wheel (though it’s possible ‘will’ was also implied).
Sankyu @emilia_clarke for one of the greatest characters of my generation!
My March 15th, 2014 Facebook post about Dany
Daenerys is perfect!
Brave and adaptive, caring with a latent viciousness, and an unwilling leader whose command/resolve/integrity/loyalty is unshaken & unbound by the mortal pains of fire or the moral pains of fatricide.
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If Katniss Everdeen from Hunger Games was put in Schrodinger’s Box, Daenerys would come out (not a cat)
A Few Quotes Aligned with Queen Daenerys
Other Notable Anti-Villains (all women)
The End
Of Forgiveness
“O Lord, remember not only the men and women of good will, but also those of ill will. But do not remember all the suffering they have inflicted on us, remember the fruits we have bought, thanks to this suffering: our comradeship, our loyalty, our humility, the courage, the generosity, the greatness of heart which has grown out of this; and, when they come to judgement, let all the fruits that we have borne be their forgiveness. Amen.”
- Unknown woman at Ravensbrück concentration camp (found on a scrap of paper either next to or in the clothing of a Jewish girl)
Inter-Minority Prejudice
All textbooks & most lectures ignore Asian/Black/Hispanic #prejudice towards each other & instead continue to have a hyper-focus on White-Minority prejudice.
- This is unfair to White people because the latent premise is that no other group shows measurable, consequential prejudice.
- Continuing to ignore this increasing problem of interminority prejudice will only put us another generation behind resolving the issue.
- It’s very likely that overt interminority prejudice is presently more prevalent than overt White prejudice.
- This will continue to decrease #Democrats overall gains during midterms (if the main issue is a #MuslimBan & Hispanic voters don’t feel like that community has been interpersonally positive towards them and/or didn’t seem to care about Issues that Hispanic Dems focused on, then they may be less likely to vote on behalf of ppl who they don’t think like them).
- Asian minorities, Black minorities, & Hispanic minorities make up more than half of the next generation, setting the stage for a minority-White America in our lifetimes.
If we don’t shift our research & policy focus to #colorism & interminority prejudice now we may very well wake up in an America that has increased in racial discomfort, intolerance, & prejudice, and White people will be the LEAST prejudiced. This is something that minority communities will end up doing to themselves.
#GodBlessAmerica 🦅
#StrongerTogether
#ePluribusUnum
#Psychology
#Diversity (with #Inclusion )
Sidenotes
Qualculation of Social Capital
- assessments of body mass index & height
- health (visual markers, metabolism, muscular stature, & family medical history)
- social beauty (skin color, hairstyle, hair length, fingernails, hair color, development of sexually dimorphic characteristics)
- social appeal (fashion sense, wearing Hollister, not wearing Abercrombie, average likes on social media)
- Qualitative Markers (motivation, independence, personality, & psychological wellbeing)
Elf Lives Matter
#GamerGirl: Hey bae, what are your thoughts on Elf Lives Matter?
SameRace bae: I’m a NeoLiberal, so I don’t see color until it’s green 💁🏻♀️💵
As a neoliberal, i practice capital accumulation by attempting to extract the #LGBT, #MeToo, #BLM, & non-Christian value of ‘diversity’ 🧘♀️
In fact, neoliberalism’s performative allyship allows us to accrue capital without actually dismantling normativities of institutional bias. If we say all the right things then our investors will feel okay again w/o having to change 💕
In this way, diversity policies may have the perverse effect of exacerbating the (re)production of institutional bias, accentuating conditions of inequality, & shield us from criticisms of ongoing exclusion because hey… we have those diversity policies 🦩
