everything about eleven’s character is misogynistic. she barely escaped her abusers and, within a week, they put her into a relationship when she didn’t even know how to form a sentence or understand what privacy, friends, or a promise were. they never explored her personal interests. she never had the chance to live a normal life or to have a moment where she knew everything was going to end. she talks about feeling like she doesn’t belong anywhere, and in reality, she’s right, she doesn’t belong anywhere. she didn’t even get the chance to see her mother one last time. they gave her a female friendship that helped develop her character beyond the men in her life, and in the last season they don’t even seem close anymore. they had to remove max from her life so mike could be the center and so she could say that he’s the one who understands her the most. she was born out of the born sexy yesterday trope, ex-machina, the madwoman, manic pixie dream girl, and to top it all off, she died as one of the most well known misogynistic tropes, the woman in the refrigerator.
they turned her death into a man’s story. her father, who spent every season crying over his daughter’s death, got over it in a matter of months. her friends don’t even mention her. the duffers really wanted to make it seem like mike is the only one who cares, because this is the story of a straight white man. she was only there to be the magical girl who changes his boring life and takes him on an adventure, only to die afterward, because she isn’t a person, she’s a symbol of the male protagonist’s childhood. even her own creators talk about her as if she were a dog, an alien pet of their self insert character.
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