I know the statement is facetious, but i hate this: "As hesitant as we are to contradict the Mother of Dragons (especially when she’s in full, imperious queen mode), we should probably stand up for Ned Stark here."
Errebody ignoring that Dany kinda sucks. My roommates (girls) love her cause she's a 'powerful' woman. Sure, she's learning on the job, but my god is she slow about it. She's an overly confident, ordained by god sort. Don't like it.
Yeah Dany is annoying now and her act is getting old.
The over the top "powerful woman" bit also doesn't hold up. Her entire position today/all her titles is based on: she was arranged to marry Drogo, someone gave her dragon eggs that hatched and she is immune to fire and can control said dragons because she is a Targ. None of this was accomplished on any of her own doing.
She wouldn't be where she is today if not for Jorah, Drogo, Daario, the big guy in Qarth, and of course her (male) "children". Jorah and Daario basically doing it only for her looks. Quarth man doing it for her dragons. And the dothraki doing it for Khal Drago (why they follow her and abandon their tradition is sort of unclear as well). Again none of this based on anything shes actually done.
There has never been one scene of her actually trying to learn how to fight or protect herself even though she has been planning her assault on Westeros for years now. She gets everyone else to do her dirty work while she either sits and watches or isn't even around for it (Greyworm, Jorah, Daario 1.0 taking the first city (Astapor I think).
Her one cool/powerful moment was when she tricked the slaver, fried him with her Dragons, and stole the Unsullied from him. Props for that, but other than that she's basically been living off her looks and heritage.
To close: she's self-righteous, arrogant, petulant, and kind of dumb. There are plenty of strong and powerful women on GOT, but why Dany seems to be the champion of this doesn't make much sense.