well behaved women

I thought I'd built up a callus against the stupid, nasty things people write about female characters and other women.

But condemning a character--who has been sexually abused--for being badly triggered by sexual assault, implications or threat, and in malicious, cruelly critical language (I can't bear to go back and read it for specifics) goes so far over the line I'm nauseous.

And, of course, they didn't criticize the male characters who had suffered similar treatment and reacted just as badly. Just the girl.

I...I can't even describe my hatred. I was almost shaking with anger. Saying vicious things about someone, verbally abusing and treating her with contempt because she was raped is just....

Yes, I know it's a fictional character. I'm aware. But fiction is a reflection, no matter how fantastical. We read it for the people. People who treat a female character like this are willing treat a female person like this. They are people, just on paper. Representations.

I feel like all the good cereta and coffeeandink's post did for me are gone. I just...can't even describe how sick I feel.

May you rot in hell, whoever the fuck you are. And at the moment, I mean that most sincerely.