#there are plenty of asshole men on imdb that hate her because they're misogynistic pieces of shit

[magenta-storm]

why do you hate max??

lol where to start.

I’ve hated her from the first episode when she tried to ruin Eleanor’s business and force her to leave Nassau.

I hate that she’s so spiteful and petty, that even after putting the woman she supposedly loves in that horrible position of being forced to choose between her girlfriend and her life’s work, she dumps her and chooses to give herself to Vane’s crew just to get back at her and make her feel guilty for something that she got herself into. 

Again, she’s so eager to hurt her girlfriend for the awful situation that she forced her into by going behind her back and trying to manipulate her into having to leave, that she’d rather get raped and beaten than let Eleanor go unpunished for not being able to save her from the situation that she put them both in! That’s a special brand of crazy.

And really, even if Eleanor had chosen Max over her plans with Flint, then she’d have had Flint after her. If Max loved her at all she never would have put her in danger like that, and she especially would not have tried to force her away from Nassau. 

Where the fuck did she even think she was going to go? I’ve said this before, I can’t get over how stupid Max’s actions in 1x01-2 are. I might have been able to get over them being selfish and manipulative, but I can’t get over them making no fucking sense. 

Where the fuck could she possibly think there could be a safer place for her - a lesbian ex-slave and prostitute - than the island her girlfriend runs? She is so lucky to live somewhere free of British law and to have the protection of the most powerful person on the island, and she tries to throw that away? What. the. actual. fuck?

Another thing regarding that - 

either I’m supposed to believe that she was so blinded by love that she really thought Eleanor could be happy leaving behind everything for her and hahaha I can’t keep typing I’m laughing too hard. If she thought Eleanor would want to go with her she would have just asked. Had a conversation like a normal person instead of doing crazy secret stealing and selling behind her back shit. She had to know Eleanor couldn’t leave Nassau without it destroying part of herself and so she tried to force her and it backfired.

I don’t see this ‘oh, so sweet, she just wanted a peaceful life with her girlfriend she loved so much uwu’ crap that people who like Max seem to see. She wanted to make Eleanor come with her even though it would break her to lose her work and then she’d play loving girlfriend, all ‘max is your habour’ blah blah blah, picking up the pieces that she broke. It’s creepy and sick and it disgusts me, and it has since the first time I saw it three years ago. 

Imagine my surprise when I get into the fandom after watching season 1 and find absolutely no one (on tumblr, anyway) views Max’s actions as anything but saintly. 

Instead, everyone somehow viewed Eleanor as an evil, sociopathic bitch for… what exactly? Oh that’s right, for not choosing to ruin everything she’s worked for her whole life by crossing a dangerous pirate captain to save her girlfriend from the situation she put herself in by scheming against her.

I mean, ok, to be fair, I don’t blame Max for wanting to change her circumstances with regards to power dynamics between her and Eleanor. Ultimately, she was just a whore that Eleanor bought. I can understand that she wanted to even the playing field by sabotaging Eleanor to bring her down to her level so she could be more secure in her position. But this was a gamble that didn’t pay off and instead of accepting that she blamed everything on Eleanor and played the innocent, heartbroken, injured party. Cowardly and pathetic.

And then what did she do next? She continues trying to ruin Eleanor, only even more stupidly this time, selling information to a complete lunatic to get her petty, spiteful revenge on Eleanor. If Ned Lowe had killed Eleanor, it would have been Max’s damn fault, because their problems started over the blood-stained cargo that would not have been blood-stained had Max not been so stupid as to give the ship carrying Abigail to a prick like Lowe. Too bad Lowe didn’t kill Max, would have been karma.

Then of course, we come to her next offense - seducing Anne and trying to drive her and Jack apart. Again, something I would accept as an unsavoury, but not unforgivable act of self-preservation if it weren’t for how incredibly annoying the majority of the fandom is, refusing to see her actions for the manipulation they are and raving on about her ‘love’ for Anne. She even replaced Anne in about 2 seconds flat with that Eleanor look-alike! but wow, so romantic, hey? 

Also, everything is her meddlesome fault???  and it’s so annoying. (Yes, Silver also stole the schedule, not excusing his part in it) but basically if she’d just kept her nose out of other people’s business from the start nothing would be so shitty.

Her interference in season 1 hindered Flint and Eleanor’s plans for the Urca gold. Her dealings with Lowe, again, ruined everything for everybody in season 2. Not that she could have known that of course, but the fact that she did it just to hurt Eleanor for the situation that she caused in the first place pisses me off. In season 3, her fucking up the plans for Jack’s rescue fucked everything for everyone up to the present. It’s just so frustrating knowing that majority of problems are caused by my least favourite character.

I’ll admit most of my reasons for disliking her up until season 3 are up to interpretation and it’s possible to have a more positive view of her actions.  

But, from season 3 onwards, I am completely unapologetic about hating her guts. There is no excuse for the way she betrayed Anne and Jack in 3x08 for absolutely no reason at all, and again in 4x01. She tricked Anne into falling for her and now she couldn’t give a fuck if she gets her killed? Fuck her.

Silver lets her in on his plan to get the gold in season 2 and she repays him by trying to capture him? And in such a rude way too, for fuck’s sake? She wasn’t like, ‘sorry, I can’t help, I have to look out for myself’ which would have been fair enough. Instead she was all ‘I’m so much better and more civilized than you.’ 

like where the fuck do you get an idea like that, bitch, you’re exactly the same as him only he’s actually managed to develop a genuine emotion or two over 4 seasons whereas you have remained the same asshole who went into business with him in 1x01. 

I think I wouldn’t hate Max anywhere near as much if it weren’t for her stans excusing all her horrible behaviour and elevating her above every other flawed character. I think if I had no interaction with fandom, I would find her only slightly more unlikable than other characters who do bad things, which is everyone. 

For example, Flint and Silver sometimes do things that make me hate them, and sometimes do things that make me inclined towards understanding/forgiving them. Every time Max does something that makes me feel inclined towards understanding/forgiveness, I see another post praising her as better than everyone else, a precious angel or high queen or whatthefuckever else and it reinforces my annoyance, dislike and general feeling of ugh I’m so just sick of her. 

Another small part of it is a) her stupid, bad fake accent is like nails on a chalkboard and I hate her dumb ugly hair braid thing  and b) I didn’t like Jessica Parker Kennedy’s character on The Secret Circle, so I was somewhat predisposed to disliking Max. 

In conclusion: Jack, Anne and pre-season 3 Eleanor are my favourite characters and Max has fucked with them all and I’m tired of everyone making excuses for her so yeah I hate her.