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To: Enterprise

Dany instructed Jorah Mormont to bring her inside the tent. At the time, there were plenty of Dothraki women around her who a) gave birth themselves, b) attended a birth because the Dothraki raped pretty much anything, or c) had a mother who told them about it. Repeatedly. In detail. Stressing the hours upon hours of pain and suffering just to birth them.

And even after Dany witnesses Khal Drogo not recovering from his wound under the “care” of Marwyn’s trained mage putting on a shadow show for a bunch of ignorant and superstitious Mongols, er, Dothraki — and all those other women around — Dany’s first thought is go back to the same mage who didn’t successfully heal her husband.

Then she’s told afterwards that she didn’t birth a baby, but a deformed stillborn half-dragon. Good thing the mage/abortionist was there! /s

No, Dany’s constant poor decisions led her to sacrificing her child. She knew full well what was going to happen because the mage told her to stay out of the tent. She’s a loose cannon who will always default to destruction first unless she’s guided otherwise. And someone needs to have the right temperament to be that kind of advisor.

Even though Cersei was given a specific “prophecy” by Maggy the Frog, she still put her children in danger and designed situations to risk her children for her own personal gain. Another long litany of bad decisions that got her children killed so she could be queen. They were her true rivals to the throne. We’re told time and time again about how much she loves her children but none of her actions match that at all.

In this world, we call them Third Wave Feminists.


158 posted on 06/29/2016 1:01:59 PM PDT by Read Write Repeat
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To: Read Write Repeat
Naw, you're so far out on this limb it broke off without you sawing it. Cersi's kids were prophesied to die, so what difference did it make what she did? Their deaths were incidental to, but not the result of, her quest to power.

Daenerys was trying to bring Khal Drogo back to life, and she didn't understand clearly that it would cost her the life of her baby. Neither she nor Cersi sacrificed their children in pursuit of power.

160 posted on 06/29/2016 1:12:27 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Read Write Repeat
Dany did not at all intentionally sacrifice her child. At first she thought she was the one who had to be the blood sacrifice, then it seemed obvious that it was the horse whose throat Mirri Maz Duur slit. Dany did all she could to save The Stallion Who Mounts the World.

Cersei is another story. I think you are correct in that, by the time she was blowing up half of King's Landing, she knew Tommen was going to die anyway because of the prophecy. She just did what was necessary to sit on the Iron Throne.
162 posted on 06/29/2016 1:26:26 PM PDT by drjimmy
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