Thinking hard HARD about how my dislike of Georgie genuinely boils down to the fandom and their inability to be normal about the main female characters.

You don’t get to point out the blatant hypocrisy and double standards they hold Jon to without being accused of just ~hating to see a #girlboss winning~. You don’t get to care about both them AND him without them gnashing their teeth about how female characters shouldn’t be burdened by male characters.

And it’s just. So. Irritating.

Georgie may have had Jon’s best interest at heart. Georgie was well within her rights to cut him out of her life. Georgie did not have to let him sleep on her couch and wear her merch and feed him takeaway. Georgie was absolutely not Jon’s savior or a tool for him to get back on his feet. I will never EVER deny those facts.

However.

And this is a BIG however.

The way people act like Georgie was a martyr for even deigning to allow him on her doorstep makes me loath to even begin to think of her as anything but a callous and cold hearted person who would just as likely drop a freshly blinded Melanie on her ass if she knew the truth about the bullet and why it stuck around so long.

Saying this, I’d feel remiss if I didn’t adamantly express that no I don’t actually think the canon version of her would. No I don’t actually hate her for anything she in canon did or said to Jon, beyond how hypocritical it was. Mostly cause I’d be hypocritical myself if I did.

But my fucking god does this fandom really fucking try my goddamn nerves with all these goddamn pedestals they put Georgie, Melanie, and Basira on. I’d include Martin and Tim there as well but it’s not pertinent to what I’m saying which is that wow. The minute a series has a majority female recurring cast, people sure like to forget nuance matters and you don’t actually have to think everything those female main characters do is righteous and just.

Anyway. Fuck Georgie Barker. Fuck Melanie King. Fuck Basira Hussain. And fuck their fans.