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I think a lot of this “worship” stemmed from casting such a talented, charismatic and humorous actor to play the role, thus softening Snape’s absolutely unacceptable behavior into “he’s just misunderstood” in the minds of many.

That’s actually the reason that I preferred the end of the Hunger Games trilogy, because despite also being a YA novel, the ending was so much more believable, exactly what you would expect after all the shit that characters had survived. Sure, the two main characters got together, but the PTSD was palpable and it…

Pleasing your parents is nice, but you can bear a little disappointment. Truly, it will not kill you if they think you are making a mistake…

Totally. Heathcliff and Cathy are two absolutely wretched people but they’ve both been romanticized as this GREAT LOVE STORY. Never mind that their selfishness and obsession destroyed an entire community.

His age also made his bullying of Harry, etc., so much creepier than it probably was supposed to be. You can see a man in his thirties still smarting from the wounds and being that level of inappropriate but someone in his fifties? CREEPY. It was only due to Rickman being  charisma in the shape of a man that it didn’t…

I wrote this above, but as a late Gen Xr who told my friend her her 60's what I thought of Heathcliff she really came to his defense. He’s horrible, and I actually think Rochester wasn’t even close to him. Rochester was more of a drama queen in my opinion, but I never viewed him as unkind to Jane, or obsessive.…

Yes. It’s bee happening forever, this is just the version that captured your generation. I’m about 10 years older than you, and have a good friend in her 60's a good 25 years older than me. And we have had this conversation about Bronte, and Wuthering Heights. When I informed her, from my late Gen Xr opinion that…

I’d argue that she pines for him, but doesn’t go back to see how he’s doing until her handsome but cold cousin proposes an icky marriage of convenience. She’s not going to settle for that. And she can’t exactly stalk him on FB, so she goes to see how he’s doing. She doesn’t approach him until she finds out he’s blind…

I always thought that the relationships felt forced, especially the epilogue. For so many characters to get married to the equivalent of their high school sweet-heart is so far fetched.

Jane takes off once she realizes Rochester wanted to commit bigamy with her

I always questioned Harry ending up with anyone after the amount of PTSD he would have come out of the books with. He actually died ffs. That has got to mess you up.

I would say, though, that Heathcliff and, ahem, Mr. Rochester both fit the brooding, male asshole romantic hero example. But unlike Snapewives, Cathy and Jane Eyre were heroines who both realized the asshole-ishness of these guys and rejected it (Cathy marries Linton, who dotes on her; Jane takes off once she realizes…

Yeah, I’m not feeling this. The comparison to female devotees of Columbine shooters seems extreme, and well.... just not in the same category at all.

not at all heroic

I deal with a lot of these at work. We call them Shirley, as in, “but surely this doesn’t actually apply to me?”

Rings true for the Conservatives in the UK too 🙄

“I’m special, though!” - Republicans

You’re forgetting the GOP motto: It’s bad except for when I need it and I’ll make sure you cant access it when I’m done.

How interesting that supposedly ironclad convictions can disappear in a moment of mortal crisis.