Robyn [REDACTED]

I hate the view too many people have on this site that when a creator makes a character whose entire role in the story is to be a villain somehow reflects the writer as a bigot. Like the entire point of the evil character is to be conflict in the story and will do things in-line with their characterisation. The writer gives you the responsibility to understand that when Mr homophobe, the homophobic character who is portrayed as being wrong and antagonistic in the story is being homophobic he is expressing attitudes and behaviours that fundamentally differ from the overall meaning of the piece of media not the deep held beliefs of the creator, bonus points if it’s a morally gray character. Like what do you want them to do, you can’t just tell the viewers that this person is bad but not actually show us the character doing anything wrong. And when they portray the same character doing positive things whilst still sticking to their established characterisation it’s not erasure or normalisation of bigotry it’s making a morally complex character. It’s making them realistic, go outside and talk to anyone they are more than likely going to differ from you in terms of morals. Like sure if the creator openly expresses bigoted beliefs as their own then yeah they are obviously a bigot but if a creator makes a character who’s purpose is to be a bigot as part of the story then it’s completely different. Learn media literacy you goons