Was King Jahaereys really a Misogynist that most Fans blame him to be?
I am tired of hearing the blame which most fans put on Jahaereys I for being a misogynist! While in my opinion he was more progressive in comparison to many other Kings. Yes, he may have messed up with certain things. But if you look majority of his actions they were either similar to his ancestors or even better than them.
* Treating his wife as equal.
Jahaereys took only 1 wife & never followed examples of his grandfather Aegon or Uncle Maegor of marrying more than one woman. Additionally he always let Alyssane sit with him in small counsel meetings and express her views in everything. He even let her attend her own separate women court everywhere.
What's most impressive is that Jahaereys always took Alyssane with him in Royal Progress & even let her visit Winterfell alone to meet Lord Stark & Night's watch as well. I didn't see any other King treating his wife as much equal as he did.
* Laws of Succession.
Now this is something in which he get much criticism but if you look clearly the laws of succession were going on in same orders only. The Lordship of Dragonstone never get passed to eldest child but eldest son. Even Aegon the Conqueror had one elder sister Visenya but it was he who ascended throne not her despite the fact she played equal part in conquest.
Aenys I too named his eldest son Aegon as heir not Rhaena. After Maegor's death Jahaereys was chosen widely by almost all members due to gender, even Alyssa & Rogar too supported Jahaereys claim only. While chosing between Baelon & Rhaenys his counsel such as Septon Barth too suggested to put Baelon forward. Similarly between Rhaenys & Viserys he conducted voting in which Viserys won.
What most people forgot is that in both cases Jahaereys didn't just set Rhaenys aside but took counsel of several people from whom he got suggestion, if he would have been such a misogynist then he could have done all this single handedly but he didn't.
* Relationship with daughters.
Alyssa was a tom boy, she was too much outspoken & sometimes even use to train besides her brother in yard but Jahereys didn't had any problem with her. Coming to Saera, he never scolded her as much as Alyssane did but at last the things she did was too much to forgive her so can't blame him. But I guess somewhere in his heart he couldn't forget her that's why recalled her name in death bed. Now, Vissera's marriage and all that mess was created by Alyssane & Jahaereys not had much hand in this.
The one thing which he did bad was with sweet daughter Daella, who shouldn't be married off so early. Otherwise his relations with other seems to be average not that bad! So why Jahaereys got all the bad reputation among fans for being misogynist when his most actions weren't different from other Targeryens? Your opinion?