It boggles my mind people to this day talk about Eddie Gluskin’s mother like she’s responsible for him being a misogynistic killer, when there are zero notes or mentions of a mother being in his life at all. Not ignoring him, not abusing him, not giving him to his father, nothing. Fandom talks like she’s this monster who exists on the periphery—but she is not a real character. She does NOT EXIST. And more than likely, given majority of the other Outlast antagonists only have one parent, she was dead or kept entirely separated from Eddie through other means.
Yes, I do think having an absent mother would make him fill that hole with flawed, fictional representation. The entire theme of Eddie’s character is filling an absence through fiction. But his little song is NOT LITERAL, he had no mother to sing about him making a family. Not a real one. (Warning for talk of Eddie’s backstory and crimes and all that entails.)
And I know the reason why this has happened: it is way easier to talk about a shitty invisible mother than it is about an in-your-face pedophile father and uncle. You know, the people who abused Eddie? Whose abuse is mirrored through the actions of Murkoff (literally filming his suffering, again)? The reason why Eddie keeps talking about wanting children to raise better than his own father did? The fact Eddie is grabbed by a bunch of men and screams rape? That Eddie then hunts down a man who helped to facilitate his abuse, and tries to castrate him, make him “weak and subservient to his whims, just like a woman!!!!!!!!!”
Yeah. I would for sure argue that Eddie’s father and uncle are a bigger influence on his misogynistic worldview and killings more than his mother, who was so unimportant Massive never mentioned her EVER. I would win this argument.
And you wouldn’t even know all of this if you only interacted with the character through fandom, because all the fandom talks about is this evil woman who is just as ficticious as the housewives Eddie idolizes. As if misogyny is always a woman’s fault, something a woman earned and all women are punished with. You might as well blame Gluskin’s misogyny on a witch.
open tumblr, see something that pisses me off, write a snarky post, delete it, write a slightly more earnest post, edit it for 5 minutes, delete it, close tumblr
I promise I have a nuanced perspective on blake langermann and his response to everything he’s been through. but every time I remember “lynn. her name is lynn” it DOES kind of make me want to kill him with a gun
I do wonder if the outlast 2 parallel in despoil the auction was a deliberate choice. dawn/‘lot 7’ in her trial victim outfit reminds me so nuch of lynn in the white dress the heretics forced her to wear… don’t even get me started on dawn’s bridal garter…
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