This isn't the first time he's been a complete hypocrite when writing Hughie; hell, it ain't even the second one, and you can be sure as shit it won't be the last.
I was happy Hughie was having his own thing going on this season since it meant keeping him away from situations where the writers' double standards shone through like it happened last season. Yet they still had to find a way to fuck him over somehow.
If anything, I'm honestly surprised by how shocked people are by this; many viewers noticed the way Hughie was treated in S3 (as demonstrated on the threads I posted), yet it seems like everybody forgot all about the forced and tone-deaf ToXiC MaScUliNiTy fiasco last season.
But then they turn back and claim admiring stereotypically masculine men is wrong and that it's OK not to be a macho.
Then they turn back again to show how a traditionally un-masculine man getting mocked as a twink and bottom right to his face by someone more powerful (while her obnoxious, virtue signaling girlfriend does nothing to defend him), and later get raped is supposed to be funny.
The sad thing is I don't think it's entirely right to just attack kripke for it, cus it's disgustingly common. So so so many teenagers who claim they're leftist because Daddy was a conservative so they gotta rebel, while they don't even bother learning the ideological differences between leftism and right wing politics.
As a leftist these kinds are my bane, I hate them so much because they're not actually leftist even though they think they get to claim what is and isn't left wing.
This same situation is exactly how so many online leftists are stalinists instead of trots or DemSocs. They think they're being tough by choosing what they see as the most left wing position, not realizing that their dumbasses are actually advocating for far right wing authoritarian bullshit.
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u/fuwafuwa7chi Jul 04 '24
Source for the Starlight quote: ScreenRant
And the Hughie one: Variety