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take-care-of-it · 9 days ago

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I think one of the reasons people get so heated when it comes to Curly’s character ie his “goodness” does tie into a lot of people’s own personal experiences. I’ve seen victims that hate curly, I’ve seen victims that love curly. And a lot of their opinion came down to how they were processing (very traumatizing!) stuff that happened to them irl. If they projected him onto themselves or projected him onto someone in their life.

I just wish people understood that’s where a lot of the emotion is coming from, both from themselves and from the “wider debate.” It’s a lot of abuse survivors calling each other abuse apologists because of what they personally get out of these characters, of it feeling like a personal attack. (But hell. A non insignificant amount of the time, it is a personal attack :/)

#mouthwashing #curly mouthwashing #tw abuse #abuse mention #it took a long time for me to realize that other people dont see what I see and vice versa.#that #other people don’t have the same mind as you and are choosing to come to different conclusions #but that #they view this thing fundamentally different from you #and while that can be problematic in things like. politics #and facts #I do think mouthwashing arguably has enough wiggle room to interpret these characters #especially curly #in a few different ways and still be somewhat grounded in canon #it’s like I get why people get so upset about this. these topics are incredibly heavy #but idk how some of you get by constantly thinking the worst in people #assuming everything in bad faith

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