While i am all aboard the past few years’ trends of finally calling out abusive and shitty folks (usually cis men), i often wonder what the hell “everyone i ever looked up to is turning out to be horrible” is doing to us amidst politics, late capitalism, global warming, etc
I’m not saying that ignorance is good but i’d be lying if i said it didnt cross my mind everytime Yet Another Hero turns out to be garbage and theres little if anything to look up to anymore besides our peers
Tangential to this is this low-key desire to mention more that sometimes, although rarer, some abusive/manipulative people do call victims abusive because of the reactions of folks believing the victim (the abuser in this case) But its like Never a good time to say that
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