As someone who had a similar reaction to that post, thank you.
It doesn't always go "I like them therefore I think their behaviour was ok in the context of the story". Sometimes it goes the other way around.
Yes! "Oh you just want to bang Actor" is frankly a thing that I mostly see antis say, so it was offputting to see it positioned as liberating. And it totally ignores the fact that most of the time, writers and actors are aspiring to a level of nuance at least somewhere north of Cruella de Vil. There are *supposed* to be interesting things about the villain. (As well as characters that aren't meant to be villains at all that anti-dom writes off as such, and I wasn't sure how they fit in this either-or paradigm.) If someone doesn't think the villain is interesting, that's their right. Happens to me all the time. But just maybe other people are genuinely responding to things actually in the story--even if they blow these elements out of proportion like fans often do with many things, for fun--and aren't just clueless beings ordered about by their loins and refusing to admit it. Which, have I mentioned, is mostly a thing that antis say.
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It doesn't always go "I like them therefore I think their behaviour was ok in the context of the story". Sometimes it goes the other way around.
Yes! "Oh you just want to bang Actor" is frankly a thing that I mostly see antis say, so it was offputting to see it positioned as liberating. And it totally ignores the fact that most of the time, writers and actors are aspiring to a level of nuance at least somewhere north of Cruella de Vil. There are *supposed* to be interesting things about the villain. (As well as characters that aren't meant to be villains at all that anti-dom writes off as such, and I wasn't sure how they fit in this either-or paradigm.) If someone doesn't think the villain is interesting, that's their right. Happens to me all the time. But just maybe other people are genuinely responding to things actually in the story--even if they blow these elements out of proportion like fans often do with many things, for fun--and aren't just clueless beings ordered about by their loins and refusing to admit it. Which, have I mentioned, is mostly a thing that antis say.
Thanks for letting me get this off my chest, ha.