manekikoneko replied to your post “I remember watching Breaking Bad and seeing the way a huge portion of...”
Not to relate this back to that Rose/Pearl post you made but yeah.. Rose reminds me so much of my mom/abuser and I was just thinking about this concept the other day..
totally! it’s definitely fits to relate it back to that
I’m not really active in the fandom, so I luckily haven’t seen a bunch of people who justify & support Rose (tho I believe it). She definitely set off huge red flags from the start for me, and the more I’ve watched has only made that more clear (the number of characters who have experienced literal trauma due to her actions, her intensely controlling influence on everyone, and the family taboo of ever suggesting she might be at fault, the public/spoken narrative of her relationships carefully excluding any harm and instead hiding everything behind secrecy and silence, etc.). And then there’s the element where even the creator of the show called Rose a terrible person.
I definitely feel like it fits that same element where an abusive character is written well/accurately enough that abuse culture does its magic to shield her from any accountability.














