#and the racism bells are BLARING and neither character gets their due!! tina got atraight up RUINED

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Honestly a criticism I'm sure plenty of people more knowledgeable than me have made but I haven't seen is that JBI (Jacob Ben Israel for those who don't remember) is a wildly antisemitic stereotype of Jewish men (or boy in this case). Like yeah sure there's other Jewish characters, but every time I see JBI play out in a scene I cringe hard because he's written worse and more predatory than Howard Wolowitz. Almost every storyline he has is sexually harassing Rachel in some really fucked up ways for a bunch of teenagers 😬😬😬

One of the dumbest criticisms of Glee that I've seen is questioning why will Schuster (is his last name spelled right? Don't care he fuckin sucks I hate his character lmao) doesn't have adult friends.

Setting aside that he does, he regularly hangs out with Beiste and Sue after school, and last I checked Emma is also an adult (I won't count Terry). But the reason he "doesn't" have adult friends is because of how shows work structurally. The setting is a high school, the audience is high schoolers, it makes no sense to follow will Schuster into his after school adult life to hang out with all his adult friends because that is not the premise of the show- because again that is how the structure of a show works. You have a set of characters in a set environment, you don't just randomly split off from that because a bunch of edgy 16 year olds on Twitter interacting with the show runners think they noticed something Sketchy™️ when all they noticed is how the structure of a show works. After School Will Schuster doing Adult Things isn't the premise of Glee and therefore his adult life outside the kids and the school isn't mentioned much if ever, because it doesn't need to be, that'd be a different show.

Frankly a lot of Glee criticism is bad faith and stupid, which makes no sense in a show that has really blatant biphobia and Kurt fucking Hummel in it. Technically nothing is "wrong" with Kurt it's just that I hate him and also he's the first character to do the aforementioned biphobia.