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On Periods: Let’s put this shit to bed right now: Women don’t lose their minds when they have period-related irritability. It doesn’t lower their ability to reason; it lowers their patience and, hence, tolerance for bullshit. If an issue comes up a lot during “that time of the month,” that doesn’t mean she only cares about it once a month; it means she’s bothered by it all the time and lacks the capacity, once a month, to shove it down and bury it beneath six gulps of willful silence.

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When we were little, Jaime and I were so much alike that even our lord father could not tell us apart. Sometimes as a lark we would dress in each other’s clothes and spend a whole day each as the other.

In chapter 60 of A Clash of Kings, Cersei notes that when she was little Jaime used to dress up in her clothes and pass as her, and she him.  At least as a child, Jaime experienced what it was like to be treated like a woman.  

We know explicitly how the impact of this experience and other misogynistic experiences has affected Cersei, but not so much how it has affected Jaime.  Did this experience give him a deeper understanding of how Cersei was treated for being a girl?   Has it subconsciously helped him relate to Brienne in any way?

And then I find myself circling back to my dead horse, about how the show  depicted Jaime as so repulsed at the idea of being called a woman.  There has been a lot of conversation about how Brienne from the books (or the show!) would never say that and less focus on how Jaime would never respond to that.

I don’t think Jaime would/should have responded to that.

And I find it fascinating that this one throwaway line actually tells us a lot about Cersei and Jaime’s childhood experiences with gender expectations.

-M

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