Back Off My Girl Sansa

Back Off My Girl Sansa

            I have come here to back up my girl Sansa Stark for her strong role as a prissy teen and girly girl, even though that sounds like I’m talking bad about her I am not, it is the truth and she is also very proud of it. What a character she is and a very girly one at that which there is nothing wrong with at all just like I stated before. Sansa is only a teenager in the medieval, and I can’t emphasize enough, MEDIEVAL times trying to do the right thing, and the readers are BASHING my girl for doing what she has been taught to do ever since she was a little girl. How are you guys not understanding of this? It gets on my nerves just a bit. Sansa Stark was disliked by many fans for her feminine role in society. She knew that being a proper and formal woman and following the rules was how she should act around people in her society. This is how she was raised by her parents Ned and Catelyn; she was taught no other way.  The rules, her expectations from a young age, and her family have primed her for the worst in this environment that she is in because of how the rules are not very well followed by everyone else.

            In Game of Thrones, there are so many rules and expectations and so many people are slaughtered or even decapitated for “doing wrong,” but there is so much hypocrisy it is insane to me how some people are still alive and have their heads attached to their bodies. When I first began to read about Sansa, I did not hate her, I mean she did get a bit annoying and WOW she did not defend her sister at all which is what I feel is the only reason some fans are hating on her, but I knew that she was only doing what she was raised to do. At one point I was disliking Arya because of what she was putting her sister through. I was like come on dude, you’re driving your sister insane and my girl is only trying to help you out. What pisses me off the most about the situation with Arya and Sansa is that Sansa is just trying to do the right thing and follow the rules of society because Ned and Catelyn never told her otherwise, and everyone seems to shame her for it. Rhiannon gave a quote in her article, “She believes in everything that her parents and her septa have taught her.” How are you going to shame someone for doing exactly what you asked them to do and learned? Throughout her whole life she saw the expectations needed to be met to be a princess and there was nothing getting in her way of doing that. Sansa learned all of these standards from her family and speaking about her family, Sansa is very similar to Ned in most ways; they are wanting to do the right thing and stick to the norm, but in this society things do not seem to turn out like that. In this story line, Ned seems to be very liked and respected, you know until they straight took his head off, but that was only because Joffrey is a maniac and wants to be petty and seem cool to everyone. LARGE AND IN CHARGE BUDDY. Anyways, in my opinion Ned wanted to follow along with King Robert’s wishes and I was actually very surprised because he knew about all the incest going on. To tie this into Sansa, I want to talk about how she wanted to follow the queen’s wishes and wanted to impress her and seem very formal to make a good first impression. These two seemed to put themselves in more danger when they were doing what society wanted them to do, so does that mean in order to survive you need to be a rule breaker? This can come back to Arya and how she has been surviving through the absolute worst even though she does not fit the stereotype of typical woman in this time. 

            As stated by Rebecca Jones, Sansa was all about the fairy tell ending. This girl was a princess to the T, she had these expectations for her happy ending just like in all the princess movies. This girl just wanted a man to save her and be her hero, but it all ended completely opposite because Joffrey was just a wild immature little boy who did not know how to control his anger. What also really pissed me off was how much she loved Joffrey, OH MY GOSH, okay I didn’t hate her like most of my classmates did, but when I realized how psychotic Joffrey was I was really questioning how this girl could be so in love with a Lannister. Okay that family is already messed up enough like if she only knew what kind of things were going on, I wonder if she would even think twice about being with this little boy. I can however relate to Sansa’s situation because ever since I was a little girl, I wanted a man to come sweep me off my feet and be my protection, but girl it is definitely not going to be like that unless you are Cinderella or rich honestly but it does not seem like that will happen for me anytime soon, so tragic for me. 

  Okay but let’s talk about how this girl grew UP! And she progressed so much through this awful process. Rebecca Jones talked about how Sansa outgrew her fantasy and saw the world for what it truly was, and at this time she knew that Joffrey was no longer for her. Sansa really matured throughout this whole toxic situation, but it kind of sucks that it took her father’s head for her to realize that she shouldn’t be caught up with this screwed up family. I also think that she was so blinded by love and was set on marrying him her whole life that she could not see past his immatureness at first. Okay now that Sansa has seen the true colors of the world and can see that the Lannister’s are stupid, NOW you guys want to “like” her because she was planning to throw Joffrey’s dumb ass off the bridge, NO, you guys should have been there from the start when my girl was figuring everything out.

            I want to go into how the readers thought about how Sansa  Diana Marques stated that women put aside their woman roles to accepted by the guys just like Brienne had to do and this can include Arya as well, but it only emphasizes how it seems a bit weird for women to do things like this. Sansa followed the way that women were viewed in societies and the audience thought there was something wrong with HER? Nah, you guys got it wrong because back then, this is how things were meant to me and it was the norm for young girls to want to marry a guy and fall in love.  Sansa decides to stick to the roles that a woman should have, to be married to a king, learn how to sew and any other attributes that a woman in that time should have. I almost think that people enjoyed bashing her because Arya seemed like such a bad ass and could do what a man could do and she was so young. Nowadays people are all for woman doing anything that a man can do because that shows POWER! That’s why I feel like Sansa was so hated, she was too uptight and wanted to be want almost seemed to be the perfect woman that society claims to want. 

             Sansa knows how to make the best of this and she is absolutely killing it because she is seen as the damsel in distress. Rhiannon argued, “ She learns how to play the game. She wears her courtesy for her armor, and she listens, and she adapts, and she keeps her cards close to her chest.”  I applaud Rhiannon because I totally agree with what she was saying in her article. At some points she knows that she can use her formality and properness for her own good. 

        Now that I have went on and on about how my girl was a bad ass, I hope you can see how I never doubted my girl from the jump. Keep doing you Sansa Stark!