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Forgive me for my stupidity, but why isn’t danny pink loved much?
I doubt coming “between” a popular ship in the fandom helps and that’s probably worth its own chapter in the book of how this whole thing went downhill.
But the short explanation for the hatred you often see for him would simply be: Racism. It’s not an accident that in spite of being an outwardly gentle person whose only crime is quietly asserting that he wanted honesty in a relationship (which? is a minimum requirement? to begin with?), people believe him to be aggressive and controlling. It’s not exactly subtle.
And the fact that people STILL call Danny a clone of Mickey seems to have very little do do with his actual character.
Bonus point for that being a complaint that started on the very day Danny Pink was announced as a character, with a picture of Samuel Anderson attached. Huh. I wonder why.
people’s reactions be like
Movies for boys that are cinematically not great but are fun, kinda dumb escapist fantasies (e.g., Kingsman, Fast and the Furious, 90% of all action movies): I mean, they’re not great cinema but it’s a fun two hours at the movies just let boys have their wish fulfillment films like whatevs
Movies for girls that are cinematically not great but are fun, kinda dumb escapist fantasies (e.g., Snow White and the Huntsman, Maleficent, Jupiter Ascending): THIS IS THE DEATH KNELL OF CIVILIZATION ALL OF CINEMA MUST BE BURNED TO THE GROUND AND SALTED AND STARTED ANEW TO RID OURSELVES OF THIS PLAGUE
