Tyrion is his brother. I just don't think Jaime is a reliable narrator when everyone in Westoros is an unreliable narrator. And Jaime's descriptions of Cersei are very physical.
I guess I'm just coming at this from the side of women of great height and non-model small-bonedness towering over men is always seen as a negative. It just is. I've lived a lifetime of towering over men and... they don't like it. To think that her height and physicality in the form of not being a petite , small-boned thing that men feel protective over because they can overpower is no 'small' thing to me and outweighs all the other descriptions.
To me, that was the primary characteristic -- that she's a big-boned woman who towers over the guys and who doesn't fit their gender mold, and I am willing to think that this goes a long way towards making a lot of characters views of her... mainly because that's been something I've seen my entire life. Because she would've been towering over men at the age of ten or eleven and that really is a huge deal to a girl when growing up. And it would've been seen as a negative.
Now, I know that the photos of the actress are glammed up, but I'm going on the assumption that they'll de-glam. But, really, I think this Brienne being 6'-3" really impacts the way that she would've been viewed in that world and viewed by Jaime who, let's face it, has no idea what in the hell to think about a woman who makes him feel like he's not the strapping golden buck of any confrontation.
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Date: 2011-07-09 02:11 am (UTC)I guess I'm just coming at this from the side of women of great height and non-model small-bonedness towering over men is always seen as a negative. It just is. I've lived a lifetime of towering over men and... they don't like it. To think that her height and physicality in the form of not being a petite , small-boned thing that men feel protective over because they can overpower is no 'small' thing to me and outweighs all the other descriptions.
To me, that was the primary characteristic -- that she's a big-boned woman who towers over the guys and who doesn't fit their gender mold, and I am willing to think that this goes a long way towards making a lot of characters views of her... mainly because that's been something I've seen my entire life. Because she would've been towering over men at the age of ten or eleven and that really is a huge deal to a girl when growing up. And it would've been seen as a negative.
Now, I know that the photos of the actress are glammed up, but I'm going on the assumption that they'll de-glam. But, really, I think this Brienne being 6'-3" really impacts the way that she would've been viewed in that world and viewed by Jaime who, let's face it, has no idea what in the hell to think about a woman who makes him feel like he's not the strapping golden buck of any confrontation.