Hey! I hope this isn't a bother, that is if you answer! Why do you think Tate's behavior, and toxicity is overly romanticized? It's just a question that's been popping up in my mind, and I just want to know your opinion on it is. I hope you have a nice morning, afternoon, and night, in general a nice day! Thanks, and of course I hope you're doing well! Take care!
I think itās because Ryan Murphy wanted people to romanticize Tate and wrote his character a certain way to do that. Some of the things that were wrote specifically to make tate be more likable are
1 : this was not exactly wrote out but Tate was conventionally attractive, this is honestly just the cherry on top to all the other things below. Ryan also wrote him so many suggestive scenes to try to make him more look hot and it was so obvious
2: his whole misunderstood trope, In a lot of scenes specifically with Violet, they made Tate have this soft or vulnerable side to make him seem like he was some misunderstood boy. He did have a soft and vulnerable side but he also had a mass shooter, rapist, murderer, and manipulator side so why does the soft side even change anything?
3 : Tate and violets relationship, Ryan Murphy wrote out tate and Violet relationship with some cringy forbidden love story trope. This honestly could deserve its own separate post but it is something that gets romanticized way too much and add onto reason 1 and 2.
4 : He was wrote out to be relatable specifically to teenagers. For example, his whole speech about high school he gave to violet at the beach, the way they made Tate (and Violet) be these troubled rebellious teens that hated high school norms and still trying to figure out there place in the world. There are a couple more things but I think him being relatable to teenagers was a big part of why he is so romanticized because relatable character are way more likable. Even I fell victim to this part at times
I think the reason all of these bad things he does get romanticized is because the way his character was wrote to manipulate younger people into getting him a cult following. Ryan Murphy wanted this.
In the end itās just a show and it was purposefully trying to manipulate you so I donāt think that itās the end of the world that he gets romanticized so much but I do think itās something to keep in mind that he was a terrible person. But itās not okay at all to defend his bad decisions or deliberately accepting them, I see both of those things way to much
To end this post off I want to say I was mostly just ranting so my grammar might not be perfect, and i also did low key forget about the whole āhe was controlled by the house!ā thing but I really donāt think that matters because in the end he still did everything he did and itās not forgivable. and some parts of it made no sense at all even if it did matter