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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

say it with me

liking a character ≠ condoning their actions
understanding a character ≠ condoning their actions
relating to a character ≠ condoning their actions
never assume that only because someone likes/understands/relates to a character that they see this character as “perfect” and don’t recognise their flaws


omg why does this have to be said literally a million times

i s2g only on tumblr do actual adults have trouble with this, even fucking teenagers get this better than they do

[(Anonymous)]

a lot ofthe people who pull the 'liking this character means youre an abuser' are teens tho

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt

i've found there's a healthy mixture of both but in the case of adults it's usually them just wanting to browbeat other ppl and knowing this works

[(Anonymous)]

yup

its adult fans who know that their bnf status will let them influence others with no consequences or they realized they could bully people into not being open with liking characters they dont

[(Anonymous)]

nice weasel words

[(Anonymous)]

those teens usually are following influential adult fans who use it as a way to gather followers

[(Anonymous)]

anon often has trouble with this too

immature idiots who think that their perfect moral fictional faves reflect well on them

[(Anonymous)]

anon is also full of babies so

[(Anonymous)]

anon has a lot of troubles tumblr has wrt fandom

you p much can't like anything w/o it turning into a weird fight
"i like [insert female character] bc the show treats her like an actual character"
"oh so you think it's the most progressive thing ever and that it's proven feminism has changed the world and is no longer needed?"
"...wat? no i just like character"
"so you think the show is sexism free and no one should ever criticize it. fuck off chad"

[(Anonymous)]

at least here it's usually lazy trolling and willful misreading to start wank, and not ppl earnestly believing that liking x character makes you a bad person (unless fandomnona's around)

[(Anonymous)]

yup

some ppl here like to excuse it as trolling but they're naive

[(Anonymous)]

i think you're naive if you think most of the wankbait + immediate escalation of arguments here is earnest

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt

i think some of it is earnest or at the v least someone who wants to genuinely shut down conversation the way tumblr does

but most of it is chaddies

[(Anonymous)]

anon also thinks liking a bad character means you love abusers or w/e