#jon being a reddit dudebro misogynist for calling myrcella insipid

[la-pheacienne]

blankwhiteshield explains so eloquently what i tried to say in this post of mine and it has been bugging me ever since i joined the internet fandom.

i think a lot of fandom should learn to stop trying to grapple criticism from a doylist perspective with watsonian arguments. u can analyze the text for what it is, and decipher what the author’s actual intentions and the themes they are dealing with are (& see the merit in them), and criticize execution and the issues from outside. art is not something that comes from the ether, it is written by someone lmao. engage with fiction like it is fiction. it is criticism of author, not watsonian criticism of a character. it is also very obvious when u all just pretend to care and make use of legitimate grievances to support an unfounded watsonian read, which leads to criticism of author getting lost in criticism of a character (as if they were a real person), because of perpetual discourse brain.