#also disclaimer i am white; black ppl are MORE than welcome to correct me on anything

[gwemrys]

i dont often see takes on morgana that are nuanced enough to my taste lol. she was designed by cis male writers who made like 90% of their already scarce amount of women villains, and who had her make damn good points first to then completely and utterly destroy anything that was good and kind about her, so they could justify dismissing all the good things she said and every valid complaint she had. (i am not complaining abt the mere fact that morgana herself was an antagonist but more about how it was handled.. keeping in mind that its written by cis men.) add onto that the fact that the creators made tons n tons of other choices that were So misogynistic it hurts.

BUT idk i just have mixed feelings abt discussing morgana bc if id make posts sort of defending her by saying she is written that way and its not her fault i feel like the white feminism side of the fandom will just loooooove to intensely agree, to then be able to continue praising the shit out of her with only rly rly vague n small side comments to ‘acknowledge’ that.. “she did bad things but but 🥺🥺..” ......like. many morgana stans (BY FAR not everyone but, many) just dont strike me as That angry at all about her cruel mistreatment of gwen for example.... theyre like oh nooo so tragic..... like they will admit its Bad but still keep their focus on morgana instead of how it rly affects gwen, a black woman. even tho i think honestly gwen was treated worse than morgana was. but the ratio of ppl complaining abt that versus about morgana’s mistreatment is so...... uneven. its just annoying that morgana is always centered when we complain abt how the writers mistreated female characters.... when actually its striking how morgana turned malicious towards gwen from the moment she knew gwen would become queen, something morgana wanted for herself.... which is such a whitefeminist(TM) thing to do

and if id make posts about how im not rly comfortable with some of the ways morgana is worshipped then id maybe give the wrong impression that i cant see or dont care about how fucked up it is that the way they wrote her and the way they wrote the whole show is flooded with misogyny and so many other kinds of bigotry.

i know i generalised a Lot here and i obviously dont assume everyone’s thinking falls into this dichotomy just because they dont express every possible nuance to everything at all times. but i just tend to see both extremes rly often and i think more ppl could do with some extra critical thinking skills tbh.

anyway in conclusion i do love morgana but many takes on her, whether they reflect a positive or negative attitude towards her, are just. way too one-sided n superficial.. plus they fail to devote the same amount of effort to addressing the harm that was done to gwen