Evelyn Ashford

Oh your girlfriend? yeah sorry she made one mistake and now the fandom hates her. yeah they're calling her a terrible character. oh definitely, they miss the entire point of her character arc, they really don't understand how it works in the story. yeah if she was a male character her flaws would be chalked up to moral complexity, no sorry, they're writing essays about how she should be held more accountable for her actions even though she was just doing what she thought was best for the people she loved and-

whoa this got reblogged a bit while i was gone

notice how “girls mature faster” is never stated as a reason why girls should be given more positions of power and authority? It only works to hold girls to greater accountability than boys and to justify men’s attraction to them.