This perspective isn’t anywhere near as progressive as you think it is.
Historically, amongst Morrowind fans, the attitude toward Almalexia has been somewhere between apathy and outright demonisation, with a lot of misogynist rage directed towards her for seemingly ‘leading the Nerevarine on’ (or even just for being a female character who is antagonistic to you, the main character), or with some Nerevar/Voryn fans killing her off or/and cutting her out of the picture completely, to just list two example reactions.
The change of attitude towards her has largely been in tesblr and also largely been within the last four years or so i.e. recent. A lot of 'Almalexia can do no wrong’ is pushback against people repeatedly insisting that she’s evil, a psychopath/sociopath (labels to demonise mentally ill people), [insert ableist armchair diagnosis here], etc. while accepting that Vivec or Sotha Sil can be morally ambiguous without insisting that they are terrible every five seconds. Most Almalexia fans know and actually appreciate that Almalexia is a complex and multi-faceted character with flaws, who does morally questionable and sometimes straight-up terrible things; the 'Almalexia does nothing wrong’ stuff is usually a flippant, joking reaction that comes with an eye-roll after being insisted a million times that she is in fact, awful. People do not seriously think that she did nothing wrong and do not seriously condone her. They are joking largely because they’re frustrated that people won’t let them appreciate morally questionable or even villainous female characters without being hounded about it.
I feel like this post is an example of that and is poking at what is genuinely a non-issue, instead contributing to a climate where female characters are expected too often to be flawless, else be picked apart, and any appreciation of a morally complex/villainous figure like Almalexia (who helped push back the Nordic conquest, saved her city from Mehrunes Dagon, her resistance to Imperial imperialism in the 3rd era etc. and did not only do bad things, but also did bad things like you listed above) is questioned unless the poster is self-flagelating about how evil the character also is every five minutes.
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