#im just expounding upon the analysis that can be given from your rant

[sakebytheriver]

I think your dislike of Britta is warranted, that is literally the mission of the text, to get you and everyone else to dislike Britta, because she is a caricature of what Dan Harmon saw his ex girlfriends as when he was running the show. Britta is the worst, most disgusting version of the real-life women a man dated, a man who was going through his lowest most out of control moments lashing out at anyone he felt had wronged him and they fit the bill and Britta was a convenient surrogate for that anger, but I also think that the ultimate point of the show is that Britta and everyone else is not alone in being a terrible person

Every character on Community has biases, they have misconceptions and ego problems and they all have their heads up their own asses and can't see further than the mirror they placed in front of themselves, Britta has this idea of the kind of person she wants to be and she tries desparately to be that person, but she just can't, and the thing is so does everyone else around her, that's why the Greendale 7 work so well, they are all terrible, horrible, no good assholes who think they are God's gift to the world.

Jeff is self explanatory, he's an egomaniacal ass who in his own words either sees himself as God or can just use lies and charm to manipulate his way through life, he holds misogynistic beliefs, he doesn't treat Abed's autism with any kind of respect and even physically abuses Abed for his antics in season 6, he's flawed and shitty and he's at Greendale for a reason.

Shirley has tons of religious prejudices from homphobia to antisemitism, she knows nothing about the world outside her church and she sees herself as better than everyone else because of her religion. She's a manipulative control freak who uses her sweet image to make people around her bend to her whims. Shirley is a woman stuck inside her own little bubble who likes to make fun of others she thinks are different from her, she's not a good person and that's why she's at Greendale.

Abed is autistic and he doesn't socialize the same way with neurotypical people, but he also takes actions he knows will hurt his friends just to achieve whatever ends he wants from his means, he happily manipulates the people around him if it gets him what he wants usually a better movie, Abed isn't the most prejudiced of the Greendale 7, but he isn't an innocent just because of his autism, a lot of the times when he acts cruelly or callously towards a friend he knows what he's doing. That's why season 6 has Frankie saying he doesn't know any better, so you the audience are obviously given that gross feeling and you realize that she is clearly wrong amd so are you if you thought you could explain any of Abed's bad behavior on being autistic. He is an adult, he is his own person, and he knows when he is in the wrong, but he will still do wrong anyways that's why he's at Greendale

Annie is a bull headed kid who thought she knew what she was doing, that she knew better than everyone else around her, she wants to win, she wants to be on top and she will settle for nothing less, and when she gets to Greendale she still thinks she knows better and that she must get herself back on the right path and has to stick her broken pieces back into just the right place in order to be the person she thinks she has to be and she will step on anyone who gets in the way of that vision. She's stuck in her own world and doesn't see what's really waiting for her on the other side and that's why she's at Greendale.

Troy is the egomaniacal popular kid who lived on the top of the food chain his entire life, but when time finally came for him to actually become the hero they all said he was, he sabataged himself, because he was ultimately a coward who had never learned anything more than that to his friends and family he could play a mean game of football. Troy was an empty vessel that only saw himself for what other people saw in him realizing he was good at one thing, but never asking if it made him happy, he was a bully and a jerk who pushed people around and made fun of them when he was in high school and he tried to start the same thing again when he first gets to Greendale. He was just another jerky kid with his head up his own ass and that's why he's at Greendale.

Pierce is self-explanatory, and it would honestly be insulting to try, we all know why he's at Greendale.

The point of the setting of Greendale Community College is that it gives crappy people a place to sort themselves out, it's written in the text of the show for a reason, no matter what you may think of any individual character the truth of the matter is that every single one of them is a shitty, crappy human being who isn't in the right place to be a part of the greater Community yet, that's why they have they're own little crazy person community at Greendale. It's a sitcom psychward, every character is a terrible person you would never want to meet in real life for more than maybe five minutes that's why they are so compelling to watch. They are the dregs of humanity and singling out Britta is understandable, but I also think we need to take in the broader conceit of the show, that everyone here is an asshole that needs to get their shit together and Britta not really having her shit together by the end of the show is probably why she's still a student at Greendale when the credits roll. It may have been a joke, but Greendale really is a purgatory where people go through some tough shit to be ready for the heaven of the life they can make outside it's walls

(I would also just like to mention that Britta probably would not be a terf or transphobic mostly because she's the only one on the show who ever even mentions transgender people when she imagines her season 7 and says the dean is not a joke anymore and is now strictly a transgender woman and not all this other stuff which still prejudiced but she seems to respect trans identities at the least which is prolly more than anyone else on the show if we're being honest)

britta using a deaf girl abed liked to win some stupid challenge and then patting herself on the back by saying she "gave a differently abled person a job" really pissed me off.

britta has always been a fake performative activist and I recall hate it. britta herself though, this isn't a jab to the writers or her actor who all made britta. first season, she builds her whole personality on being an activist but she doesn't make any effort to do anything for the causes she talks about, then gets upset when annie and shirley start doing something for it and get interested in activism because they take away her thunder, and only then did she start trying to do real things to support her causes.

she calls herself a feminist but actively tears down women who doesn't fit her rigid standards of how to be a woman, much like the people she claims to be against. she'll turn against her friends and insult them and their family for sucking up to the oppressive male dominated patriarchy and destroying what it means to be a woman, when they were just gonna get makeovers with their mom. she'll embarrass herself and get into unnecessary fights to prove a bs point because a woman showed an extra inch of chest to get more money for a cause they both support. any instance of a woman (this goes for all non men of course (i say this as an afab trans person) but trans people haven't been ever mentioned in the show) not hating themself for being a woman, not hating their cis afab bodies, not repressing their sexuality and attraction and doing what they want even if it lines up with what a sexist man might want to see, she hates it. she treats it like women can only be happy when they are the opposite of what the patriarchy says, putting them all into the same kind of strict oppressive state, just with opposite rules.

she treats herself like she's better than anyone else simply for just being britta and refuses to even acknowledge that people are different. she constantly forces abed to function in her fake therapist neurotypical ways when her and the group fully know he's autistic and handles things differently. when he warps reality in his mind to cope, she doesn't worry more on how he commonly gets so stressed out or overwhelmed with hard situations or feelings that he has breakdowns that convince him of false realities or that he chooses to believe in realities he knows are false because he has no idea how to cope, she obsesses over how he's not coping by the book and will yell and chase him down to get him to speak his feelings, something she should is hard for him to do, in a way she knows he can't do. speaking more and abed for a minute, it was so sad when troy left because he said no one gets abed and he only got him a little bit. as an autistic, abed makes the most sense and is the best character. it's sad that no one gets him and treats him like a pet or baby.

branching off what I said before, she acts like she does the most political change but doesn't do jack shit. she admits that she doesn't even vote and still does nothing for change unless it's momentary and gives her popularity and the spotlight. she says she's an anarchist or at least a former one but she still keeps up that talk even after abandoning it, and then she has an existential crisis after seeing that her former anarchist buddies are judgemental and decide her worth based on how much activism and protests she's done (none). just in the meowmeowbeanz episode, she stages a revolution to bring everyone back to equal, but when jeff got everyone to delete the app and revert back to a rateless system, she lost her mind that people were moving to the bigger cause behind her instead of treating her as a higher entity instead of focusing on a bigger cause that actuality helps people.

this was just a rant on britta, any britta opinions are welcome. the show is still enjoyable with hey but there are often parts that piss me off. and this isn't argument or discourse, please don't take this in a hostile tone