maladaptive daydreaming

Divergent headcannon that dauntless people are super good at helping others through panic attacks.

There is obviously the complete disregard for Al’s mental health and problems leading up to suicide, which was then painted to be some sort of cowardice by our lovely protagonist, who them make it all about herself and then shares a moment with Four.

But but but

Everybody seems to have complete amnesia about the fact that Tris was sexually assaulted on TWO OCCASIONS. For every single one of them she not only doesn’t report it, but implies that there is weakness in reporting. Emphasis: weakness not shame. Many women as we know are afraid to speak up for the fear of embarrassment, and when they do it is nothing short of brave. But the brave heroine here believes that there is true courage in not telling and almost makes it look like if you did, you’d be a tattletale. It’s sickening. She made it look like she would be called weak. Which is scarily probably true in that world.

Moreover, the most terrible offense on Roth’s part was what she did with Peter after that. Over the series, he is used as comic relief and even given some sort of redemption, to the point where he now has fans in a largely female preteen audience who seem to forget his predatory actions. They even ship him with Tris. Which is vomit worthy.

Also, how come Al, the formerly good guy, with obvious issues, that none of his friends helped, committed suicide and it was never spoken of again. How come Tris doesn’t feel any regret, not for not forgiving him, but for not being a better friend? But most importantly how come he gets such bad rep in the fandom when Peter is sanctioned by Roth to be a more redeemable character, which is wrong on so many levels.

Thank you for bringing your thoughts here! These are extremely valid points of contention, I absolutely agree that sexual assault and sexism in general was handled very poorly through V.Roth’s choices. Even she agrees with that - V.Roth herself posted an interview of hers a while back where she stated that one of her biggest regrets in the series was not addressing the assault. (The other biggest regret was killing Lynn) 

You’re right, the idea of shame plays a huge role in the Divergent world. Families are ashamed when their children transfer, Christina was ashamed to have cried after she was thrown over the chasm by Eric and that’s why it was never brought up again, and Tris deals with shame on a personal level every time she looks at herself – I think one of the main points in the series is overcoming the shame that older generations put in younger kids. 

Me:

Begone,