WHF Sally's Perception - Misogyny in Fandom

ORIGINALLY WRITTEN: September 2023

NOTES: There will be discussions of the exploitation and rape of a minor, though in passing. Reader discretion is advised.

I dislike fandom-centric arguments but I’m watching some we happy few related stuff again and the narrative that sally cheated on Arthur with his father will always be fucking wild to me.

Ranting [...] because I’m having feelings and seeing people talk shit makes me upset.

Sally was a minor. Arthur’s father was an adult. He groomed her and raped her.

And the second she tried to come clean, the narrative was twisted, and she was painted to be some villainous whore. And she, years later, still apologizes for being raped. She apologizes to Arthur when he starts screaming at her for it and recounting the event as “fucking my dad on my mother’s bed”

Before anyone comes at me with that “but she was 16” bullshit… would y'all say that about your sibling? Your own child? That because they’re almost an adult (and the technical age of consent in some areas), or because they happen to be a “troublemaker” (which it’s hinted at through sally’s own arc that she may have been a rebellious teen) that they deserved to be raped because they could have said no? Because they may have had a conscious choice? Because they might not obey all the rules, such as curfew or modest dress?

Nobody deserves rape. Plain and simple. No exceptions. If you disagree, go die I guess <3

Also. Not to mention the statutes around the age of consent (re: it being 16 in some places) only apply to small gaps and other minors, not someone who’s probably in his 40s or 50s.

Granted, we know jack shit about Arthur’s father and the dynamic that was had… but he was an adult. She was a minor, who was struggling with her own shit (e.g., mental illness, the whole narrative plot, the implementation of joy and drugs and withdrawal, watching her fucking family die)…

He fucking knew better. In any regard. You as an adult simply do not proposition a minor for illicit activities. That makes you, surprise, a bad fucking person. A disgusting fucking rapist!

But I just… hate that people are so quick to accept the game’s narrative on this, especially since we see everything in that regard from Arthur’s perspective. And I think a lot of people forget that. We see what Arthur wants us to, to an extent.

We never get that full context, until we take a step back and think for ourselves. But that’s just too much to ask in regard to a female character, I guess.