Sometimes I just wish people would allow men (and women) to have a platonic love without turning it sexual.
Me too.
In the Teen Wolf fandom, it seems people have the biggest problem with Malia, because she hooked up with Stiles. There seems to be two problems with this, 1)people who want Stiles to end up with Derek are mad that he had hetero-sex. 2)There's a pervasive fanon that people who are in animal form don't age mentally. So, people don't seem to understand that Malia could have aged mentally as a human, even when she looked like a coyote and didn't attend school. This fanon kind of offends me on many levels - mainly, the idea that unless you get a formal education, you're somehow mentally/emotionally developmentally-delayed. Yes, Malia probably sucks at math, but that wouldn't affect her emotional development at all. Also, we have no idea what she was doing in those years as a coyote, she could very well have been reading discarded newspapers and listening in on the conversations of hikers. It's not like she was completely socially isolated, given that she was living right next to Beacon hills in preserve that seems to be a very popular recreation spot.
But anyway... I think people just use that coyote thing as an excuse to justify the fact that they're just pissed that Stiles is doing heterosexual things... or their pissed that Malia might prevent Stiles from getting with Lydia (if they ship that instead of Sterek). Personally, I see Stiles/Malia as a relationship that could only benefit the Stiles/Lydia relationship - because I think Stiles still has to grow as a person before he can enter a healthy relationship with Lydia, and that INCLUDES dating people who are not Lydia.
/rant.
I also agree with you about liking all the ladies in SPN, except Amelia, who was not written well.
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Re: So my wordiness is not just limited to SPN comments
Date: 2014-04-07 10:09 pm (UTC)Me too.
In the Teen Wolf fandom, it seems people have the biggest problem with Malia, because she hooked up with Stiles. There seems to be two problems with this, 1)people who want Stiles to end up with Derek are mad that he had hetero-sex. 2)There's a pervasive fanon that people who are in animal form don't age mentally. So, people don't seem to understand that Malia could have aged mentally as a human, even when she looked like a coyote and didn't attend school. This fanon kind of offends me on many levels - mainly, the idea that unless you get a formal education, you're somehow mentally/emotionally developmentally-delayed. Yes, Malia probably sucks at math, but that wouldn't affect her emotional development at all. Also, we have no idea what she was doing in those years as a coyote, she could very well have been reading discarded newspapers and listening in on the conversations of hikers. It's not like she was completely socially isolated, given that she was living right next to Beacon hills in preserve that seems to be a very popular recreation spot.
But anyway... I think people just use that coyote thing as an excuse to justify the fact that they're just pissed that Stiles is doing heterosexual things... or their pissed that Malia might prevent Stiles from getting with Lydia (if they ship that instead of Sterek). Personally, I see Stiles/Malia as a relationship that could only benefit the Stiles/Lydia relationship - because I think Stiles still has to grow as a person before he can enter a healthy relationship with Lydia, and that INCLUDES dating people who are not Lydia.
/rant.
I also agree with you about liking all the ladies in SPN, except Amelia, who was not written well.