I would like to begin this by saying that this article is not an attack on any particular person or political party. I write this to merely state the coincidental similarities between the character arc of a strong fictional woman with ambition for her birthright and the struggles concerning women's rights in real life. As the global sensation "Game of Thrones" ends this year, the current political climate is bubbling in America for women.

For those who boast about never seeing a single episode of "Game of Thrones," allow me to give you a sample of Daenerys's journey. She begins as a sheltered girl being told she can never be anything other than what the men around her tell her to be: wife, sister, mother, and not a queen, but her husband's queen. While modern women cannot all be queens (at least in the most technical terms), we all face a struggle with our identities as women and human beings.

Along the way, she finds strength through her voice and is encouraged by people who believe in her. She understands what she wants and what she must do to achieve what is rightfully hers. This correlates with the rise in recent years of women taking a stand to achieve equality and justice with such events like the #metoo movement and protests for equal pay and reproductive rights.

As both of these movements have their victories and setbacks, Daenerys and women of today make a mark with their progress for causes that they believe will not only change but benefit the world forever.

This seems like the wave of the future, right?

All the pieces are finally coming together, and progress appears to be on its way to becoming permanent.

Yet, when Daenerys is almost at the last step to achieving her life-long goal of the throne, larger unexpected obstacles come her way. Some still doubt her, but she chooses to fight alongside them for the collective good of the world. When she later asks for help in return, they call her crazy when she reacts out of anger to their promise being unkept and start to question the sanity and being of everything she is.

Does this sound familiar?

Finally, she is undercut by a man who seemed to have better qualifications for the job. That's it, the end.

While most women of today don't have dragons to use as a weapon of retaliation, the world continues to undermine us with new rules that we seemed to have conquered (I'm looking at you, Alabama).

Daenerys Targaryen truly mirrors modern women because she worked hard all her life for what she had only to wind up being declared insane and replaced by a 'more suitable' man.

Coincidence? I'll leave that up to you...