#i didn't mean for this to turn into a shiv analysis but.... 😑

[oreganosbaby]

I'm thinking about the sore spots that the Roys tend to exploit in each other.

Connor: His mother and not being included/respected in the family, especially by his siblings who he feels like he raised to some extent.

Shiv: Her womanhood or more specifically, being reminded of the fact that she isn't exempt from misogyny no matter how hard she tries to avoid it or overcome it.

Kendall: His drug addiction, mental illness, failures in both family and career, complicitness in his father's misdeeds/being like his father in a bad way and the manslaughter incident.

Roman: His psychosexual issues, genuine and open affection for his parents (particularly for his mother), and percieved lack of intelligence or seriousness.

Logan: His waining health/inevitable death, most things about his past and that he's a shit father, or rather that he failed his children.

It's interesting that Shiv only has one thing, but i think it encapsulates a lot. It's such an easy thing to pick at because it's not hard to see that it upsets her and it's something that is so common in a lot of other women. With Shiv specifically, I think it's something that contributes to her need to be taken seriously. By reducing her to just her gender, it shows that they don't think she has any other qualities, that she's not a real person. I would imagine that growing up in this household being raised by a right wing media magnate, she'd witness ample misogyny directed at others from Logan, his colleagues and her brothers. It would be so frustrating and painful to think or wonder whether her own family genuinely sees her the same way. I also think Shiv believes in meritocracy more than any of them. She feels she works hard to prove herself to be strong, powerful and intelligent, but the way sexism puts her in a rock and a hard place means she can't really win. If she can't win, that just makes her a loser by default and in the Roy family, there's nothing worse than being a loser.

#dalia writes #shiv roy #succession meta #succ sesh #i didn't mean for this to turn into a shiv analysis but.... 😑 #i love her... my emotionally constipated queen