What the badass women in Game of Thrones taught us

The takeaway now that Game of Thrones season six has come to an epic close – if you wanna fix a broken world, put the women in charge. There has always been many players on the chessboard that is GOT: east, west, north, south, etc. All of the major areas that are still in play in this dangerous game are now, at the end of season six, either ruled by a woman or the power was bestowed by a woman.

Cersei Lannister

She just took the Iron Throne with no husband or sons, only a brother who showed up after she was already coronated. She has been shamed and disgraced as a woman from the entire faith militancy, her weak husband, her horrific, betraying sons, and the people of King’s Landing. How does she overcome this? She blows every single enemy up while sipping on a nice, red wine from a goblet. Cersei teaches us that crowns, shoulder armor, and iron thrones always go best with a delicious smile and a delicious wine.

Lyanna Mormont

While some men in GOT still deny a woman and child entrance into a fricken library, a ten-year-old girl is ruling an entire household in the North and single handedly picks Jon Snow as the King. Classically, all the men are fighting about whose ego is bigger, getting nowhere but closer to a few good punches when Lyanna Mormont stands up and calls out four grown men for being weak and disloyal before declaring Jon the true King of the North. Lyanna teaches us that the weak will always fall in line and that your voice matter more than your height.

Yara Greyjoy

On one side of the world, the women of Doren and Olenna Tyrell are just your usual group of female assassins chatting over some tea about blood and fire. One the other side, Yara Greyjoy declares independence while flirting it up with the Mother of Dragons as the two bond over men underestimating female rulers. Both alliances teach us the importance of women supporting each other, being deadly and sexy at the same time.

Arya Stark

She killed many men in the name of her family’s vengeance. Arya could outshoot her brothers in season one and she is the one to take back the family name by slaughtering Walter Frey. Don’t think that extra ass slap he gave her while she was serving him in disguise didn’t inspire that smile when she slit his throat. Arya teaches us that keeping your hands to yourself is important and that women can be warriors if we want.   

Sansa Stark

GOT used her character to show the horrific reality of how women have been valued throughout history, but you best believe she fed her attacker to his own hounds. Sansa doesn’t need any marriages or heirs to get the biggest bedroom in Winterfell. Sansa teaches us to definitely reject the advances of old and/or psycho men and that women are survivors.

Daenerys Targaryen

The Mother of Dragons. GOT takes the only thing men thought of women as back in the day and turns that into the most killer and epic weapon in the entire world. She ditches her fling and settles instead to ride her hundred of ships, multiple armies, and three dragons towards the Iron Throne. Khaleesi teaches us that anything women chose to do, mother children or command armies and rule kingdoms is badass in its own right.

Keep in mind that this is a Medieval based television show and women are still kicking ass and taking names, thrones, etc. If these women can get to these high levels in society in the GOT world, we should be able to “burn cities to the ground” so to speak, sans wildfire and dragons of course because that stuff was definitely marked “don’t try this at home.”