Well, I don't have much respect for the viewpoint that a shattered teenage girl who's systematically watched nearly all her loved ones die in front of her and now can't bear to lose more is somehow being shocking or unkind in turning a blind eye - her actions may not be morally spotless, but to criticize the text for portraying her as nice after this viewpoint, which implies a moral judgment should be made on her motivations, is something I have a problem with.
I see where you're coming from. And while I don't have a problem with Elena being unwilling to lose anyone else in her life, regardless of what they do to other people, I just feel like the show really have a tone-deafness with regards to Elena, Stefan, and Damon, where the way the show presents them, and the way other characters react to them, doesn't sync up with what they have done and/or how they have treated people.
But maybe I've just done too much rolling my eyes in general lately at fandom disconnecting from and violently turning on Elena in a hot second when they've spent two or three seasons cheerily fangirling the characters and worse characters themselves. It's the old disproportionate double standard response, and even in more thoughtful renditions it tends to put my back up at this point
I completely understand that.
And 'the victims aren't real' doesn't really work, because the victims are real to the perpetrators, and it's the perpetrators as people who would do these things, to real or fictional women, that we're judging.
Seriously? People try to use that argument? Wow.
Also, I'd like to politely ask that you don't support the show's casual usage of rape-culture laden terminology around me.
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I see where you're coming from. And while I don't have a problem with Elena being unwilling to lose anyone else in her life, regardless of what they do to other people, I just feel like the show really have a tone-deafness with regards to Elena, Stefan, and Damon, where the way the show presents them, and the way other characters react to them, doesn't sync up with what they have done and/or how they have treated people.
But maybe I've just done too much rolling my eyes in general lately at fandom disconnecting from and violently turning on Elena in a hot second when they've spent two or three seasons cheerily fangirling the characters and worse characters themselves. It's the old disproportionate double standard response, and even in more thoughtful renditions it tends to put my back up at this point
I completely understand that.
And 'the victims aren't real' doesn't really work, because the victims are real to the perpetrators, and it's the perpetrators as people who would do these things, to real or fictional women, that we're judging.
Seriously? People try to use that argument? Wow.
Also, I'd like to politely ask that you don't support the show's casual usage of rape-culture laden terminology around me.
Noted.