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You have to wonder where the idea that fic, romance stories and the like, MUST emulate healthy relationships, comes from.
And then you realize that this is the generation that has been steadily fed the diet of shitty media criticism hailed at Disney that “Belle has Stockholm syndrome!” And “Belle is a victim of abuse!!” On repeat, full blast.
Then it all starts to make a bit of sense as to why these people won’t allow themselves the leniency of a story being fictional, a situation, a conflict, to be exaggerated in order to move the plot along and entertain.
And these shitty cheap shots as an attempt to “be smarter” than Beauty and the Beast I think genuinely scared people who were entertained by the movie into thinking that they were entertained by a story of a man abusing a woman (it’s not.) Or scaring people who maybe did enjoy the story as some sort of wish fulfillment. Who maybe thought they wanted their future relationships to emulate that of Beauty and the Beast.
What’s worse though is instead of fighting back against these bad faith media critiques Disney chose to instead, take them to heart and try and “fix” the original fairytale, and made nothing… there is no risk, no reward.
These stories are meant to entertain, and sometimes there are situations/conflicts that are exaggerated in a way that, yeah in a relationship with another actual person, would absolutely count as abusive. (Or unrealistic!) But is something to move the plot along and make a relationship believable to the audience while granting a satisfying payoff. You’re not a horrible human being for liking fictional stories that aren’t completely healthy or are realistic.
To be clear: I’m not blaming this phenomenon ALL on the bad faith media criticism hailed at Disney. Lord knows that the quality of English education has steadily dilapidated, and I see the bad faith criticism as more of a reflection of the problem than a cause.
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