#or Lottie/Shauna/Misty/Nat/etc didn’t do anything wrong!

[nataliescatorccioapologist]

Let’s talk about understanding nuance in people’s interpretations of fiction!🎉

Liking Lottie, Misty, Shauna, etc. ≠ Excusing/justifying SA

Liking Travis ≠ Excusing/justifying misogyny

Liking any character ≠ Condoning all of their actions

Hating a male character ≠ Misandry

Hating a female character ≠ Misogyny

Fans engage (or disengage) with characters for countless reasons—relatability, intrigue, or narrative complexity—and reducing those motivations to surface level, binary takes such as the ones above undermines genuine discussions about character depth and storytelling. No one is condoning the actions of these characters. We’re here to watch them do terrible things. We all appreciate how complex this show and its characters are, so let’s appreciate how complex people’s interpretations of it are, too.