Date: 2019-02-09 12:57 am (UTC)
lb_lee: M.D. making a shocked, confused face (serious thought)
From: [personal profile] lb_lee
Because apparently I have to vent in more than one comment.

For real, why does it always have to be the DOUCHEY white guys who get the big followings? Like, Chuck Hansen is a DICK. That's it. No ifs ands or buts, and... I can't even remember if he had canon tragic backstory (dead mom?) but even if it did, I am really not fond of the whole "tragedy makes you a dick, boohoo" thing. (For real, I've been through a lot; that doesn't magically make it okay for me to be a fuckwagon to everyone around me! I'm kinda offended by the implication that a shitty childhood means I can't NOT be a dick! And I also hate the idea that misery is a checkbook and as long as your douchery equals your misery, it's okay. That is a thing people do in real-life in super-hurtful ways! I don't think it does ANYBODY any favors!)

Like, it'd be one thing if folks glommed onto super nice characters. But it always seems to be the Draco Malfoys, the Kylo Rens, the raging douchasaurus-es. And I'm like, why? What is the appeal of these jerk characters in specificity?

If it was JUST racism, than why not latch onto white heroic characters? I mean, I wasn't a big fan of Raleigh Beckett (loose cannons are meh to me), but he and Hercules Hansen were you know. Not total douchewads.

So what's the appeal of these guys? Is it the Cookie Monster thing of seeing characters allowed to act on things they're not supposed to? But then why the tragedy? Is it folks wanting justification for their own worst impulses, and tragic history is just the best way to get it right now or what?
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