hunterinabrowncoat:

You can whine all day about how sam stans are really angry and bitter, or about how we’re all taking this too personally, but I’m just gonna go ahead and say it:

An entire fandom vilifying a character for leaving an abusive home-life, spinning that act of agency as a betrayal or abandonment, affects me personally.

People loathing a character because he was an addict, as though that too was some kind of betrayal of trust, affects me personally.

Being told by the masses that someone shouldn’t stand up for himself, should be more considerate about the feelings of the person who violated his bodily autonomy, affects me personally.

Treating a character’s mental illness as a joke, affects me personally.

Dismissing physical abuse as ‘tussles’ and ‘banter’ and ‘not a big deal’, affects me personally.

Seeing an entire fandom vilify a character for trying to make a healthy choice by trying to move on and build something for himself, affects me personally.

And having to hear over and over that a character I identify with needs to ‘get over it’ after he’s been abused, berated and stripped of his bodily autonomy MULTIPLE times, affects me personally.

So yes. I take it personally. I take it really damn personally. I probably take it too personally. But don’t assume that I don’t have a damn good reason.