You know in all post about character hatred people go on about poor Ron, Harry, Draco, Sirius, Hagrid or even the Death Eaters, but no one sees anything wrong with hating Umbridge. Maybe we can all peacefully hate Umbridge, because no one likes her and can rain on our parade hatred. No one will ever be labeled as "hater" over their dislike for Umbridge - instead everyone will nod and say: "Well done, mate, she's such a bitch."
If character hatred is so bad, hard-to-understand or irrational, why does no one says anything about the Umbridge hate ever? It's so in your face and everywhere and anywhere, that if one talks about character hatred, she should be the first character to talk about - long before Sirius, Hagrid or Ron.
I suspect the answer is simple: Umbridge-hate is absolutely acceptable in fandom. Hagrid, Sirius, Draco-hate is not, is far from it, actually.
However it reeks hypocrisy to hate Umbridge and then complain about people hating Hermione or Draco or Ginny or whoever. Anti-hate discussion should deal with the hate that is acceptable first, before dealing with unacceptable. Because it's the acceptable that gives way for the not-so-acceptable, because once you learn that you can freely hate Umbridge, Vernon Dursley and Peter Pettigrew, the next logical question is: "Can I Lucius, too? And Snape? And Draco?" The question whether it is right or wrong to hate a HP character is no longer asked, because it has been answered already by this fandom.
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Date: 2004-09-01 08:48 pm (UTC)You know in all post about character hatred people go on about poor Ron, Harry, Draco, Sirius, Hagrid or even the Death Eaters, but no one sees anything wrong with hating Umbridge. Maybe we can all peacefully hate Umbridge, because no one likes her and can rain on our
paradehatred. No one will ever be labeled as "hater" over their dislike for Umbridge - instead everyone will nod and say: "Well done, mate, she's such a bitch."If character hatred is so bad, hard-to-understand or irrational, why does no one says anything about the Umbridge hate ever? It's so in your face and everywhere and anywhere, that if one talks about character hatred, she should be the first character to talk about - long before Sirius, Hagrid or Ron.
I suspect the answer is simple: Umbridge-hate is absolutely acceptable in fandom. Hagrid, Sirius, Draco-hate is not, is far from it, actually.
However it reeks hypocrisy to hate Umbridge and then complain about people hating Hermione or Draco or Ginny or whoever. Anti-hate discussion should deal with the hate that is acceptable first, before dealing with unacceptable. Because it's the acceptable that gives way for the not-so-acceptable, because once you learn that you can freely hate Umbridge, Vernon Dursley and Peter Pettigrew, the next logical question is: "Can I Lucius, too? And Snape? And Draco?" The question whether it is right or wrong to hate a HP character is no longer asked, because it has been answered already by this fandom.