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Every once in a while I’ll see a post saying “why do people hate William so much?  You shouldn’t judge people off of surface details.  The other characters are flawed too.”

I hate William because he did not simply do one or two things wrong, but he did a whole shitton of things that were fucked up.  He slept with Vilde without a condom when she was drunk and then acted like he didn’t know her afterwards.  He told her that she wasn’t good enough and only started giving her the time of day in order to use her to get to her friend.  When Noora called him out on this, he said “I had to be an asshole so that she wouldn’t be interested” but he could have just said that he wasn’t interested before they had sex.  He could have chosen not to have sex with her.  He could have told her afterwards when she was under the impression that they were a couple.  Oh, and he also could have not used Vilde’s interest in him as a way to get Noora to go out on a date with him.

There is also that he ditched Noora when she was terrified and told her that he didn’t love her anymore.  She was the one who thought she had gotten raped, but he acted like he was the victim in all this.  That is fucked up.

I don’t believe in judging people based off of one or two good or bad things that they did, but I do believe in looking at the pattern.  The only time I ever really liked William was when Noora was freaking out about Nico and she couldn’t sleep and he comforted her and held her until she slept.  But again, one isolated act of kindness doesn’t cancel out how he was horrible to her for the rest of the season.

Oftentimes people quote the thing that Noora has on her wall about how everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about.  But why does it only apply to excusing William’s behavior?  William didn’t think that “oh, maybe Vilde is fighting a battle I know nothing about, maybe I should be kind to her instead of sleep with her, ignore her afterwards, lead her on in order to blackmail her friend into dating me, and then go right back to ignoring her.”  He also didn’t seem to think “gee, I never actually told Noora that Nico was a predator when she met him so she had no idea that she needed to have her guard up around him.  Also she was acting like she was traumatized for the past few weeks and when I asked if she slept with Nico, she said ‘I don’t know.’  If it was consensual, she would have known.”

It also bothers me that we got a storyline of him fighting with these guys and we never got their side of the story.  We got the side of the story that was most flattering for William and made him sound like a hero, but what the hell were the other guys motives.  That guy who had a bottle get broken over his head and could have been seriously injured, what does he think?  Is he fighting a battle that we know nothing about?  Should we be kind, always, to him too?

SKAM S4: 4 years anniversary

BI SKAM WEEK 2021

The canon LGBT+ character of the day is

So like, they can stomp me anytime.