Amanda Jane is a 30-year-old writer, social media lover and pop-culture obsessed adult*. While she isn't working on her novel, she enjoys watching television shows, wondering about the YouTube business model for vloggers, movies and reading any books she can get her hands on. She might be made up of 20% coffee and 80% sarcasm.
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Definitely, Robert’s passive acceptance of violence. Robert seems to believe he deserves all and any violence inflicted on him by anyone. I don’t know if this is the show’s way of punishing Robert for myriads of crimes and misdemeanors. Maybe this is their way of telling the GA, “look, he’s not getting away with what he did.” But I don’t know any other character who’s at the receiving end of that level of violence. tbh, most of the time I am uncomfortable with it. Every single Robert storyline or plot has had loads of gratuitous violence directed at him. Frankly, it sends the wrong message. Any time there’s violence inflicted on an LGBT character or a woman there needs to be so much thought put into it and it better be shown it’s wrong. In Robert’s case, the message is always he deserved it, even when it’s partner violence.
To get back to your original question, I would really like this part of Robert’s character to be explored. And it would be a great storyline that might be tied to Robert’s complicated relationship with his father. And hopefully, it would end the aestheticization of violence where Robert is concerned.
Angel was one of my closest friends. It’s right that it’s Halloween, because it
was her favourite holiday. I knew we’d hit it off from the moment we met. This skinhead was bothering her, and she said she was more of a man than he’d
ever be, and more of a woman than he’d ever get.
