#problematic favs

[rubypearlbubbles]

They said the age gap between Tony and Peter is problematic…

Just wait till I write a fic where Peter is Howard Stark’s bratty little fiancé.

Likes Tony, sure, but still makes out with that old man right in front of him.

(taking “eat the rich” very seriously)

[chimaerabutt]

I’m genuinely begging some of y’all to stop associating talent with morality. It is literally just a capitalist repeat of linking beauty to godliness and ugliness to sin.

They didn’t stop being talented just because you found out they did fucked up shit. Get out of here with “well I always knew, and I never liked them.” You’re no different than the people claiming their talent absolves them of their harm.

You can’t buy, read, or watch your way in to heaven.

[andromaex]

Gregory House is rude. yes, he’s offensive. yes, he says things that make everyone in the room deeply uncomfortable.

but “says offensive things” ≠ “is written as a bigot,” and if you watch House M.D. with even a shred of media literacy, it becomes very obvious very quickly that the show is not endorsing his comments

house is an equal-opportunity menace. he goes after everyone—patients, colleagues, authority figures, himself. his insults aren’t rooted in a belief system that puts one group above another; they’re rooted in his need to provoke, destabilize, and strip people down to what he thinks is the “truth.” (which is its own issue, but not the same as bigotry.)

and crucially: the narrative does not reward him for being offensive. it rewards him for being right about diagnoses. those are not the same thing.

in fact, the show repeatedly:

has other characters call him out (often immediately)

shows his assumptions being wrong

forces him to confront his own biases

and, on occasion, lets those biases actively hinder his ability to treat patients

if anything, house’s whole deal is that he thinks he’s above bias because he rejects social norms, but the show keeps proving that he isn’t. he’s flawed. he’s hypocritical. he’s human.

also: pretending that a character must be morally clean to be narratively valid is how you end up with the most boring television imaginable. house works because he’s abrasive, because he crosses lines, because he makes you sit there and go “wow, that was awful—anyway he’s right about the lupus.” when House makes racist/sexist/etc jokes, they’re not there as random shock humor—they’re ironic.

the joke is not “haha stereotype funny.” the joke is “look how absurd and reductive this way of thinking is.”

house isn’t written as a spokesperson for those ideas. he’s written as someone who weaponizes them to provoke reactions, and in doing so, the show holds a mirror up to the kind of thinking behind those jokes in the first place.

the show gives you a constant counterpoint so you’re never meant to take his words at face value.

it’s the difference between:

using stereotypes to reinforce them vs

using stereotypes to expose how stupid they sound when said out loud

and house lives in that second category.

if you strip the context, sure, it looks bad. but with context, it’s very clearly satire aimed at the mindset behind those jokes, not an endorsement of it.

liking or analyzing a character like house is not the same as endorsing everything he says. it means engaging with a story that is actively poking at prejudice, ego, pain, and the very human tendency to think we’re more objective than we actually are.

[sydnxyfae]

I took notes while watching nosferatu (back of theater and ended up being the only one there) and these are a few of my favorites

[haley-harrison]

catch me sipping fangirl tea from the "my blorbo did nothing wrong" mug

[sassygaykuja]

choose one of my problematic favs

kuja (final fantasy ix)

ramattra (overwatch)

AM (i have no mouth and i must scream)

the trapper/evan macmillan (dead by daylight)

astarion (baldur's gate 3)

jasper (steven universe)

the beast (over the garden wall)

jhin (league of legends)

Voting ended onJun 27, 2024

sorry theres only one woman. i support women's wrongs too i promise

[maeofthedead]

Me latching onto the worst character in a series: there he goes, my little trash man, off to be terrible

[lilmeowmrow]

im a homestuck now