#be sexist and blame beatriz for getting involved with an engaged man

[ladysophiebeckett]

there’s always been this discussion about who the villain in ysblf is and ive seen tiktok comment sections call betty the villain for sexist reasons (she took marcela’s man even tho that’s not what happened) or that armando was the villain bc he’s the one who lied to both women---that marcela’s a victim and did nothing wrong. it varies. and like yeah, all three of them did bad things to themselves and to each other. that doesn’t make them villains, it just makes them well written characters. 

if anyone’s a villain, it’s mario calderon. he truly does not care about anyone but himself. he doesn’t care who he hurt. on top of that, he never apologizes to beatriz or armando for the letter he wrote. he only supports armando going after betty once she changes her appearance. he was the one who was distrustful of her and nicolas bc of their class. he’s the one who causes armando, who he knows is easy to rattle, to be paranoid. 

armando recognizes his wrongdoing and suffers the consequences of his actions. he begs for forgiveness. he worries he’ll never have another opportunity to show beatriz that what he felt was true. mario is witness to this but he doesn’t care. he believes its all lost cost. and then continues to conspire against him ( bc margarita told him to and bc it’s an easy order to follow) by telling armando to get over it bc she betrayed him and her disappearing is a sign of her trying to keep the company. that’s not a friend. that’s not even a good person.  there’s a reason why that friendship (if u can call it that) is dissolved by the end--bc armando isn’t the same person he was at the beginning but mario is.