someone reblogged this post with commentary from me but then blocked me sooooooo time to pick their answer apart like this:
The point is, everyone talks about Ward’s wrongdoings. There is literally not a person in this fandom, including the majority of his fans, that do not acknowledge his wrongdoings. There is nobody giving him a free pass and letting his bad behavior slide, unless of course they’re delusional
Really? There is no one letting Ward’s bad behaviour slide? What are the Ward stans doing who
claim that Ward is not a traitor?
pretend that Ward did not threaten to rape Daisy?
claim that he did not take advantage of Kara Palamas?
argue that Ward dropping Fitz and Simmons’ containment unit was not attempted murder?
claim that Ward having sex with May while pretending to be someone he wasn’t to subdue/neutralize her is anything but sexual abuse and manipulation ?
Sorry, but that is textbook “letting someone’s bad behaviour slide”
It’s alright that they tricked Ward into killing Kara, someone that he cared about, and it’s totally awful he wanted revenge for that,
WARD WAS NOT TRICKED INTO KILLING KARA OMFG
Ward turned a corner, saw someone who looked like May and shot her without thinking of the fact that while yes, the real Melinda May was on the premises, his partner was able to take on May’s face. That’s on him, not on the team.
but now that Coulson’s two-week bootycall died at Ward’s hands it’s totally okay that he wants revenge, and that he killed a man in cold blood to get that revenge.
1) There have been plenty of fans who have criticized this story line who aren’t SWWers, sorry.
2) The fact that Rosalind died may have kicked Coulson himself into action, but Coulson had been supporting people who tried to kill Ward for a loooooong time before that. He wanted Ward dead long before he killed Rosalind and he didn’t want Ward dead only for killing Rosalind - he wanted Ward dead to stop him from hurting any more people. That’s different from Ward reviving HYDRA to punish the team because he shot Kara.
Ward right now is being painted as a villain. Therefore, he displays villainous behavior. That makes sense. However, it doesn’t make sense to see our heroes displaying the exact same villainous behavior, especially while the narrative still makes a point to act like they haven’t done anything wrong.
Except the heroes don’t display the exact same villainous behaviour? Context matters. Motivations matter. Coulson kidnapping Ward’s little brother while not harming a hair on his head to stop Ward is different from Ward kidnapping people at gunpoint because he needs them for his own precious power trip. And even if the good characters like Hunter act in immoral ways, the rest of the team as well as the narrative as well as significant parts of the fandom criticize them for it.
