Read on (but watch your glass). ‘Daenerys Doesn’t Need to Be a Feminist Hero’ [Slate]“ ‘Game of Thrones,’ the show, is working off an ending delivered by George R.R. Daenerys used to personally save women from being raped by Dothraki warriors. She took Yunkai, Astapor, and Meereen with minimal bloodshed, and she succeeded in creating a better world for the people in those cities. To win, she must follow Olenna Tyrell’s advice: Ignore the clever men (“the lords of Westeros are sheep”) and be a dragon.

Source: New York Times May 14, 2019 18:33 UTC