#the double standards

[beabnormal24]

Absolutely love how people on Insta will be like

“Omg!! Rare moment Oscar laughs! Omg! Ice man frfr! Omg!”

While people on tumblr have 13056 millions posts of Oscar doubling over for Lando

[severussnapemylove]

Thoughts; Snaters (and general haters) only seem to care about children being mistreated when it has something to do with Snape or a child that's established as the "bad child".

Snape says anything critical about Neville, he's the devil incarnate. McGonagall publicly ridicules Neville and leaves him stranded with a murderer on the loose. *crickets*

Snape makes a bitchy comment about Hermione's teeth, grab your torch and pitchfork. Trelawney insults Hermione repeatedly. *Crickets*

Barty turns 14yo Draco into an animal and physically beats him against the stone floor, making Draco scream in pain. Barty performs the torture and killing spells in front of children who lost their families to those spells. *Barty fans invent a fanon that has Barty being a sweet lost lamb*

Hagrid performs body modification on an 11yo Dudley, who he doesn't know and certainly has no jurisdiction over, resulting in Dudley needing corrective surgery. Fans; *Good old Hagrid*

So bullying and child endangerment is acceptable if it's by a popular character or comic relief? Physical child abuse is acceptable if it's towards a child you don't like?

So, is Snape bitchy? Yes. But the monster they like to make him out to be? Hell no. In fact, compared to what the others do, he's a freaking delight.

I know I've posted things like this before, but I just had another Snater try to pull the same arguments again and the double standards are just mind blowing and makes my blood boil.

[hannah367]

"Oh Karen was feeling neglected in her marriage so it's fine."

"He was 18, so what's the issue?"

Ok, so if Ted was hitting on Robin would it be ok since he and Karen's marriage was failing? Would it be totally fine for Hopper to hit on Nancy since she's of legal age, and then be treated like a total hero without ever acknowledging what he did? I'd like to imagine that thinking of either of those scenarios makes you feel disgusted, so if they shouldn't be able to get away with that, why can Karen?

Is it because she's an attractive older woman, a poor neglected house wife smittened by an attractive younger man? Newsflash, just cause your lonely doesn't give you permission to try and fuck someone who was born the same year as your highschool daughter.

"Oh but Billy wanted it."

One, people much more well articulated than myself have already analyzed how he wasn't actually interested in her by any means; any feelings he had for her or the other woman were 100% driven by mommy issues.

And two, even if he was genuinely interested in her, SHE'S THE ADULT, IT'S HER JOB TO SAY NO AND CORRECT THAT BEHAVIOR! And even the reason she decided against fucking him had nothing to do with him being over twenty years younger than her, but because she thought of her family instead. Which, yeah it's good to not be a cheater, but that is the lesser of two evils right now girl.

Maybe that's why they never gave Billy and Joyce in a scene together, cause I bet that if Joyce was put in Karen's position, either time, she wouldn't have agreed to have sex with him. If anything she'd be very concerned as to why this 17 (S2) - 18 (S3) year old boy would be hitting on her. (She'd probably be like 'fuck the magnets, I have to figure out what's going on here.'"

Plus Karen and the other older woman are ACTIVELY trying to get his attention by getting all dolled up and laying seductively right next to his lifeguard tower while flirting with him. Plus they literally witnessed him yell at a young boy and call him a lardass and they were just, fine with that? And you can't tell me Karen didn't know what she was doing when she did a backstroke in the lane closed to Billy.

Again, can you imagine a scenario where Murray, Hopper, Mayor Kline, and Mr. Scott are lying by the poolside, in tight swimwear, literally counting down the minutes until Nancy's shift starts so they can ogle and flirt with her. Disgusting right? Oh sorry, but the Duffer's probably wouldn't do that cause it doesn't play into their fantasy of being hit on by an older woman.

They literally could've had it be any women around his age they didn't have to make it Karen (or any women in her age range) and put a huge stain on her wrap sheet. Cause, admittedly, if it was only the scene in season 2, while still weird, you could argue that she maybe didn't know how old he was there, but by season 3 she definitely knows he's (likely) freshly 18.

And additionally the way's I've seen some fans sexulize the whole relationship is also gross, like I once saw on Reddit somebody asked what people's thoughts on the Billy Karen plot was, and one comment literally said, " Well, I just wanted to see them bone."

Billy was a kid who was repeatedly failed by every adult in his life, either being abused, abandoned or sexulized by them.

It's literally insane to see the double standard, so to make it clear, if you find nothing wrong with this relationship:

Then by your standards, you shouldn't have an issue with this one either:

But knowing how some people think, since their both attractive they also might find nothing wrong with this.

Sorry for the rambling, I don't even know if this is coherent, like I said, people far more well spoken than me have picked apart how gross all of this is.

[iamactuallythewalrus]

thinking of the time i was talking to someone i know and they asked me a question about the beatles and i got so excited but they cut me off mid-rant to say 'do you like yoko' and i got so upset and annoyed at being interrupted for that fucking question that i left them on read

[angelsdean]

Sam judging dean for *checks notes* mutually flirting with women at a bar that are clearly into him and for *checks notes again* lying abt what they both do for a living to said women (bc casually telling random ppl you’re supernatural hunters is totally the logical thing to do) (also, rich coming from Sam who neglected to tell Jess, the woman he was going to propose to, after dating for over a year!!) but then, Sam admits to taking an art history course specifically because it’s a good place to meet women, not for any genuine interest in art like ok! Guess it’s fine to play pretend when it’s a college thing bc ooooh intellectual, but pretending to be something else for one (1) night (where neither person involved has any expectation of seeing each other again) is apparently worthy of judgement

[stardust948]

If Hakoda was the one to sacrifice himself to protect Sokka and Sokka talked about him often, most of the fandom wouldn't bat an eye at it.

But when Katara talks about her mother’s sacrifice it's suddenly annoying.

[suzus-twin]

Ah so a male character can be the embodiment of a dictator and people will be like “oh it’s fine you can like villains” but a female character not being concerned over the fan-favorite deer being injured means she deserves to get staked. Okay!

[murdockhawkeye]