Don't fucking say I never did anything for you Wyler idiots. And some of you are real idiots, currently pulling the same arguments against Xavier as the Wenclairs do, never acknowledging Tyler's responsibility for his attack on Xavier and his mural on Outreach Day '21. I'd made note of her before, but her latest droning about the Wylers sparked my will to finally say something, despite my disdain for the ship.
This Sydney Sweeney-sounding fuckass Wenclair has some nerve yapping about pickmes while at the same time behaving like the biggest true one out there, wielding her brand of 'feminism' as a weapon and opening her hatch to let loose her very, very bad takes on Tyler Galpin (and other men in the series) in the name of Wenclair. She panders to the fandom’s sancitmonious white moral majority, yapping exactly what she knows will get applause from other Wenclairs. She types 'Wednesday' here, but she really means Wenclair (and it fucking figures that she's a whackadoo Swiftie, too):
Most ✨fandom edits✨ are still validation-seeking (like how most of social media is), but hers are confessions under the guise of righteous 'feminism' with Wenclair, and of course only she can decide what the fandom Wenclair dynamics are because "ooooooh but noooooo, Wednesday is mean and disagreeable with everyone eXCePt eNid!"
Never mind that Wednesday didn't listen to shit about fuck whenever Enid opened her mouth during the second season/refused pinky swears twice/did not show any physical affection whatsoever (and instead wanted to have control over Tyler/risked Enid's life over getting control of him).
I can't fucking stand 4B's high rising terminal (where every sentence sounds like a question; women (and the few gay men who do it) need to stop fucking doing this, it makes them sound vapid/stupid) but I really started finding her vile when she posted this shit:
“I laughed when his mom slapped him in S2.”
A reminder of that scene:
This is also a reminder that Season 2 Hyde Lore conflicts with S1 Lore; Tyler was perfectly fine after murdering Rowan, since he was fine the day afterwards when he ambushed Wednesday in the woods. While the price of transformation shows itself worse as time goes on just as Afterburn predicted, it should have also showed itself in S1 if what Françoise says here is true.
This is the current state of self-absorbed, self-congratulatory exclusionary White Woman Feminism (the same type of shit JKR peddles and that Taylor Swift represents to the Swifties) and a Western appropriation of “4B” being repackaged in the media illiterate language of Millennial/older Z “media analysis.” Some of the vocabulary is there but the comprehension is null: it's “feminism” with empathy stripped out, reduced to palatable, aestheticized outrage and righteousness performed for engagement. It's not female liberation and there are no feminist ethics here.
I can't believe I even have to say this, but Tyler wasn't the aggressor in this scene; he was a victim of cyclical violence. His mother’s slap mirrors the same domination he endured under Laurel Gates/Marilyn Thornhill (for fuck’s sake, Tyler even asks Françoise if she's his new master). That's why the majority of us viewers gasped or reacted surprised at violence against him by his own beloved mother who he had just found out was alive. The slap was tragic/not triumphant, and there's no justification for laughter; 4B’s glee over watching a (young, he's still young) male adolescent humiliated regardless of context is nothing but misandric voyeurism with a complete lack of empathy and a failure here to recognize that Tyler’s Mommy Issues/arc aren’t ‘evil man punished by women’ but boy* raised inside and remade by matriarchal corruption.
*This user has also referred to Tyler as a ‘grown man’ and to Wednesday as a ‘girl’ in the same breath/complained “holy Hell the age gap” (when there's a 2 year age gap between them at best), further exposing how her framework depends on infantilizing women and demonizing men. It’s hypocritical argumentum ad passiones (many of these modern arguments are, along with a crapload of other logical fallacies), with the illusion of righteousness built on unequal standards.
Feeling sympathy for Tyler in his situation as a victim of grooming and physical abuse isn’t any men’s-rights/MRA nonsense, either: it’s part of the empathy that 4B and the movement upon which she takes her name lacks. Feminist theory at its best from bell hooks, Simone de Beauvoir, even Betty Friedan argues that domination harms everyone. Feminism isn’t about [4B] withdrawal or rejection, or cruelty/taking pleasure in a man’s pain or suffering; it’s about dismantling universally harmful power structures, not cheering when aggression is gender swapped. Recognizing male suffering isn’t centering or re-centering men; it’s refusing to reproduce the same power logic feminism is supposed to dismantle.
This puerile, uptalking ‘feminist’ Wenclair calls Wylers pickmes but her whole act is pickme theater. It's performative outrage for the Wenclair crowd, the same shit slung by a trad pickme performing sweetness and subserviance for men. Every ✨edit✨, every ‘media-analysis’ post, every Swift-stanking Wenclair montage is her perceived moral superiority feeding her own fandom preferences and indoctrinating the young Z girl demographic that makes up the bulk of Wenclair into the kind of shallow, bad-thought feminism that flatters ignorance. She’s not dismantling patriarchy, nor is she even letting Wenclairs be Wenclairs and interpret their dynamic the way they want to outside of canon; she’s chasing kudos/validation from impressionable young girls who mistake tone for theory (which is VERY easy to do during a literacy crisis).
The top row speaks for itself, since she had to be corrected about canon. But the rest are also fucked, considering that Thornhill/Gates WAS all up in the Mommy Talk ("Tyler honey, make Mama happy and shut her up")/touching him seductively, Enid DID suck in S2 for cheating on Ajax/getting pissy about Wagnes when she was spending all her time with Bruno and the Furs, and Wednesday has high praise for Gomez: "The point is, you taught me how to be strong an independent. How to navigate myself in a world full of treachery and prejudice. You are the reason I understand how imperative it is that I never lose sight of myself. So as far as fatherhood goes, I'd say you were more than adequate.").
All of that fucking said, she's got expertise in terrible takes, and there's a reason for the lack of engagement in her comments (sometimes people who know that shit sounds wrong don't know how to engage to tell these idiots that they are wrong). But be aware that there are plenty of takes like this around Wenclair, and that behaving like a bunch of man-hating fuckasses is the reason why no one’s taking the Tyler hate from young ‘feminists’ seriously. Trust, there are plenty of reasons to hate on Tyler Galpin, but according to canon, he was/is the slave to his transformations and by the definitive nature of his condition, a slave to his masters, both of whom happened to be women (though we could say “all”, if we're going to include Wednesday and Capri).
I'm sure some fuckface is going to go running to her with this post and that's fine. I'm no stranger to whiners bitching at me for picking on them, or taking what I write creatively and turning it around on me into an argument about why I, as a fandom perv/squickposter, can't be writing about these subjects. That will be where they're wrong, since my creative writing is not in the same catergory as my critical writing. (Though I would argue that ABW is a feminist in the same vein as some of our foremothers.)
