f o r e v e r wild.

Oh, you choose the side completely based on Misogyny and Bastardphobia?... Yeah, sure, that doesn't scream "I'M A BIGOT!" at all...

I don't think you actually like that character.

This applies to SO many mfs, but particularly the fangirlie who got really mad yesterday on one of my recent posts (bitching in the tags) because I said (factually) that her (presumed) fave(s) would be awful romantic partners, and that portraying those characters as "lovingly and romantic" is a clear sign that you don't actually like that character.

"Why can't Mike just love a Nice Guy like Will? Guys never go for the Nice Guys." 🥺

"Mike is such dumbass for not recipocating Will's feelings! Will should've KILLED his stupid ass AND Jane!"

Absolutely moronic. Society and art may be doomed.

This bullshit is reminiscent of a video I got recommended on YT 2 or 3 years ago saying that we were groomed by shows like Pretty Little Liars. What else, dipshit Miss Moral Majority, do you believe that horror movies and M for Mature video games are teaching people to be murderers and drug dealers?

Calling anything bad or inappropriate (or that you simply deem bad or inappropriate) "grooming" is a slap in the face to actual victims of grooming. And it causes artists making art to be slandered and even harassed.

Even age-inappropriate relationships are not inherently Grooming. The Scream fandom likes to say that Richie groomed Amber when that is canonically not true. He was a creep, yes, but it was not grooming. (And for 1000th time, they are both FICTIONAL and SERIAL KILLERS!) Many people say that Karen groomed Billy (Stranger Things), but that is literally not possible because not only was he was attracted to her on his own, but they barely even knew each other! I hate that whole thing, and I think Karen is disgusting, but she did not groom him.

Most thing nowadays will have characters be openly queer, when in the past, there was pretty much only Queer Coding.