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Putting this under a cut because I’m rather pissed off by it, and am therefore 10x more likely to piss someone else off with what I say.

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I’m gonna be an asshole.

Max, do you really expect me to feel bad for Karofsky because his bullying, assault, harassment and death threat towards Kurt didn’t work as a proper outlet for his pain?

Do you expect me to feel bad for Karofsky because his stalking and emotional manipulation of Kurt didn’t get him a shiny new boyfriend in Heart?

This quote is gross and should feel gross.

That Karofsky reached such a place of despair and pain that he attempted to take his life is truly terrible. But it is offensive and disgusting to lament that Karofsky’s “coping” mechanisms didn’t work out for him, when those mechanisms were terrifying and harming another person and feeling entitled to that very same person later, and essentially laying any responsibility at Kurt’s feet.

JFC. I respect how genuinely well-intentioned Max is and how he truly believes that his character is helping people (which I imagine that it is and I’m glad for that). But he needs to fucking STOP if this is how he understands what the hell is going on with this fucking character.

I’m sorry, but this quote is not fucking okay. It is not okay to frame his bullying as a “coping mechanism” or a “way to express himself.” That is buying into the bullshit narrative choices that have surrounded this whole storyline that actively absolve Karofsky of his responsibility for his actions because he is gay, that he couldn’t accept himself so he had to do something else to process those feelings.

BEING GAY IN A HOMOPHOBIC ENVIRONMENT DOES NOT MAKE WHAT KAROSFKY DID OKAY. It gives it context. It motivates his actions. But it does not excuse the choices that he personally made for dealing with his own pain or make them anything less than 100% wrong. And the fact that the guy who is playing the character cannot adequately express that idea is sign number one that this whole arc failed utterly in its original intention OF TELLING A STORY ABOUT THE VICTIMS OF BULLYING.

Beyond that, casting Kurt’s reaction to Karosky’s OUT OF THE MOTHER FUCKING BLUE grasping at straws declaration of his “feelings” for Kurt as “closing a door” on a way for Karofsky to come to terms with his sexuality in a healthy way is so fucking gross, I can’t even. It is once again ignoring the fact that Karofsky is using Kurt as a proxy for actually processing things that have nothing to fucking do with Kurt and shifting responsibility onto him for dealing with them. 

And the fact that the resolution to all this was that, yes, in fact Kurt really is the only person who can help Karofsky AND THAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE OKAY AND UPLIFTING AND INSPIRATIONAL makes me want to grab the writers and shake them.

I’m not saying that Karofsky doesn’t deserve sympathy or empathy or that his actions cannot or should not be forgiven (although the narrative has pretty much erased the worst dimensions of it in a highly problematic way). I’m saying that everyone in this entire clusterfuck seems to have forgotten the very important point that KURT IS AND SHOULD NOT EVER BE IN ANY WAY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY THE THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO HIM OR THE CHOICES THAT KAROFSKY MADE.

the fact that an arc that was touted as being about “bringing bullies to justice” and addressing the issues of bullying and teen suicide, ended up being about how hard life is for the bullies is one of those things that i just sit back and gawk at because there’s failing on the dismount and then there’s failing on the dismount and then lighting the entire arena on fire and salting the earth. i mean, the message ends up being “bullies deserve to have their victims be their friends because at the end of the day YES their pain is more important than whatever pain they have caused you because they didn’t have any friends god you selfish asshole why didn’t you see the pain THEY were in!?”

and the fact that then you have so many people that have not only bought that line from the jump and now have that validated says everything you need to say about how it reinforces the culture that glee intially said it was setting out to question and subvert. THANKS GLEE :D!

>:(