User blog comment:Paul.rea/Teen Wolf News 102613/@comment-198.15.109.34-20131028022457/@comment-198.15.109.34-20131028030324

Oh honeychild, I can tell this is going way over your head, so I'll take it slow for you:

Perpetrators of violent crime against marginalized people are:

1) espousing behavior that is LITERALLY SCRIPTED for us (chicken and egg arguments nonwithstanding), thereby engaging in NORMALIZED ACTS OF VIOLENCE

2) prosecuted and incarcerated at ETREMELY DISAPPOINTINGLY LOW RATES

So if in the "real world", we don't get justice, should we settle for fantasy world where similar abuses go unchecked? In most instances, a simple acknowlegement is all it would take. Character A just needs to turn to Character B and say, "what happened to you was wrong". Instead, these plotlines get neglected or dropped, characterizations are stilted by lack of followthrough. At this point, we have two problems. One, it's socially irresponsible. (But you don't give a fuck about that, now do you.)  Two,  IT'S BAD FUCKING  CRAFTSMANSHIP. NO SCREENWRITING PROF OR ENGLISH MAJOR WOULD STAND FOR IT. IT'S SERIOUSLY LAUGHABLE, OR IT WOULD BE IF IT DIDN'T HAVE HORRIBLE CONSEQUENCES.

But back to the socially irresponsible. Silence is complicity. Can you accept and understand that? Silence is complicity. Recent studies have shown that failure to recognize and stand up against racist, sexist, homophobic, or otherwise disgusting oppressive behavior actually has the long term mental consequence of CAUSING YOU, WHO STOOD IDLY BY, TO ALIGN YOUR BELIEFS & OPINIONS MORE CLOSELY WITH THE ABUSER THAN THE ABUSED. Should I repeat that for you? If you do not ACTIVELY stand up for the victim, you will begin to empathize with the abuser more than the victim. And the first step in empathizing with the victim is certainly not to, I dunno, sweep it under the rug and never fucking talk about it ever.

That's why we'll continue our critiques of Teen Wolf as loud and as long as we damn please, you piece of shit. We won't be made complicit with our own degradation. WE ARE STANDING UP FOR OURSELVES, AND IT IS JUST AS DIFFICULT FOR US TO FIGHT APATHY AND INVALIDATION AS IT IS TO FIGHT WITH OUR FISTS. You don't have to listen to us, but you'd better check yourself before you presume to mock us, you useless procrustean fuck.