One thing i will never shut up about is how the GA blames Mike's innability to tell El "i love you" into his family. Because NOW Mike has trauma. Because NOW they see this. This is honestly really disturbing, because:
1- Mike and Nancy come from the same family and Nancy is very capable of saying i love you to Jonathan. VERY. CAPABLE. Dyk why? Because Jonathan is the one she loves.
The trauma from saying i love you is to say that to someone they don't love. Because they don't want to end just like their parents did. But since Nancy was so sure that she didn't love Steve, she didn't said it. But with Jonathan, it was different. Because she loves HIM. Not Steve.
That being said, if Mike really loved El, he would say that. They are just homophobic if they don't admit it.
"oh, but even if they come from the same family and share this trauma, Mike could deal with it on a different way and end up being afraid of saying i love you in general"
If that's true, why tf did he say i love you to Karen in the finale? Like??? He IS capable of saying i love you, after all. He just didn't loved El.
2-I don't see the GA and anti-bylers acknowledge Mike's trauma in other situations, but just to justify his obviously bad boyfriend behaviour. Honestly, they don't even seem to care for Mike and El. Just for Mileven. Why are you shipping them if you aren't going to care for them individually? What even is the point lol. Too afraid of the byler fandom to finally be right? Too afraid of queer rep?
Also, why are they so afraid of just admiting that mileven was just doomed if it was so obvious, too? It's not like media lacks straight relashionships that work out lol. It's not the same case as bylers, bc we were(and we still are, even if the shown ended) fighthing for Byler to be canon because media lacks queer relashionships that work out having good rep. Specially on the possible relashionship that we could had if the bylers were right (we were tho, the duffers were just scared)















