Kate

big brain: villains are not intrinsically good or bad. as long as they're interesting, it's okay to enjoy them responsibly.

galaxy brain: you actually don't need to justify liking a villain character, no one cares, it's a fucking story. internet discourse is stupid. their narrative purpose doesn't dictate what you can and can't enjoy. there's no threshold a character needs to pass for you to like them and anyone who disagrees can mute you because the internet is a self curated space and you aren't doing anything wrong. this villain's ideologies might be problematic in a real world setting, but that's not where we are. just move on and stop trying to justify yourself to strangers with no bearing on your life or your enjoyment of narrative tropes and characters.

like… opening doors isn’t rly chivalrous when it’s just a thing you ought to do for everyone. but real 21st century chivalry might be, like, standing between your female friend and the guy that’s trying to get her drunk, or offering to walk her home when it’s late.

It involved generosity and protecting those weaker than oneself: including opening doors when doors were made of badly fit heavy wood and often got stuck,and women, especially undernourished exhausted-from-childcare women, had a harder time opening them. It involved not lying, and following through on your promises. (A guy who is consistently late with the accounting reports, which delays the whole team, is not dedicated to chivalry, no matter how polite he is on a date.) 

The thing that’s really unique about the work: it treats his audience with respect. People are really hungry for that now. People are able to know when they’re being fed homogenized and factory-produced music, and they’ve had enough of that. 

- Britney for making fun of her when she had her breakdown

- Monica Lewinski for judging her when she was a 22year old temp sexually assaulted by the most powerful man in the world

- Ke$ha for ever thinking she was trashy when all she wanted to do was make party music

- Kristen Stewart for ever thinking she was dumb when she’s actually one of the coolest people ever

- Megan Fox for ever thinking she was just a slut when actually she was an actress being harassed by her employer. 

- Hating all the women who made a career out of having a hot body. Being is shape is hard, beauty is a weapon and auto promotion is hard work. 

- All the Mary-Sues, who exist because young girls everywhere want to be part of a story they love so much

- All the female characters I ever snobbed because they got in the way of my ship.