sometimes i think people are a little too hard on amanda for how she acts in this episode. or at least they're too hard on her for the wrong reasons. she's being cruel, yes, but i think she'd be just as upset if it was sarek making the ālogical decisionā not to save spock. that means it's not ACTUALLY about being too vulcan or not human enough, it's about someone else being able to save the person you love, and being powerless to do anything but beg them to do it.
like imagine how jim would act if sarek refused to give spock his blood to save him. he'd be just as emotional, just as desperate. i know it's different/worse because amanda is spock's mother, and the slap is SOOOOO not okay. she is human though... more importantly, a very nuanced/tragic character.
i feel like somewhere along the way fandom has started saying ābigotry against vulcans is bad but bigotry against humans is okayā because it doesn't SEEM like bigotry. a vulcan looking down their nose at humans because they feel things and don't follow their exact way of life IS bigotry, though. in the show it's always done for laughs when spock picks on humans for their emotions and illogic, but i've been exploring lately how much that might hurt jim when they're in a relationship. how jim would try to correct himself for spock and hold everything in, WHICH IS NOT HEALTHY, all because of the ways vulcans often look down on humans.
so for amanda to have a lapse in her own decision to follow vulcan philosophy and cry and scream and beg... idk i think it gets dismissed as simple cruelty when it's also an extremely powerful break from her stoic characterization. like she's been married to sarek for DECADES. she's been a human living on vulcan, the mother of the first vulcan/human hybrid. she has a mask on almost all the time, and in this scene it comes off, and it's ugly and cruel and bad. it's human and desperate and shows the darkness that can come with feeling love like we do.
on the other hand, people also totally ignore that she is, in fact, problematic. that's not what i'm trying to do. how she acts here wasn't okay or right. as with most things, the truth is somewhere in the middle
(should go without saying that none of this rambling is drected at op, i'm just typing into the void)
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