lastcenturykindagirl:

becketted:

brilliantlyhorrid:

Blergh, I didn’t read basically any reviews apart from IGN’s because of stuff like that. Still calling her Skye? Really? That’s so gross. 

Reviewers haaaaate Daisy, and they always have. (IGN and Entertainment Weekly are the exceptions I’ve seen.) Like I said before, I’m sure some of the same people doing this now were bashing her back in Season 1 when she was given the bracelet (oops and then still was the person needed to save Coulson, imagine that.) Using her (UNDERSTANDABLE) depression as a reason to bash her is disgusting, and I’ve seen people get up in arms over James saying Simmons didn’t understand them, and they cite her traumatic experience on Maveth. So who is allowed to suffer on the show? Who is allowed to show it? How can you undermine one character’s pain while making sure people don’t forget another’s? 

It’s disappointing, because while I have no doubt Daisy is going to be obviously right in the narrative, I don’t see her getting apologies from the people who have exacerbated her pain. And that sucks, because it tarnishes the Simmons and Daisy relationship for me. 

Daisy is not allowed to suffer.

She is not allowed to have any feelings.

Daisy lets other characters walk all over her from day one without asking anything yet fandom calls her “selfish”.

If she wants to know what happened to her parents and why SHIELD was unfairly hiding the truth from her she is “childish”.

If she is sad about finding out her father is a murderous monster she is “whiny” and “cries all the time”.

If she is angry a group of terrorist want to kill her and everyone like her then she is “amoral” and “dark”.

If she protects herself from her abuser she is “a monster”.

If her boyfriend dimisses her and treats her like shit we have to be understanding of his issues (never Daisy’s issues, never her past abuse or her mental illness).

If her so-called friends victim-blame her and throw abuse at her face when she is depressed and hurting we have to sympathize with them, or at least excuse them because their cruel treatment of Daisy comes “from a place of love”.

She is never allowed the same humanity as every other character.

She is staying away from the team because she feels guilty and because she is convinced the people she loves will be hurt or killed if they stay in contact with her. But these feelings are never taken into account when taking about why she left. People only talk about boo hoo the other people in the team (who are safe and surrounded by those they love) and how they’re sad because that bitch Daisy doesn’t let them see her.

Daisy had her agency and free will violated by a monster, she was forced to become her worst nightmare, two men she loved (one of them the love of her mentor’s life, imagine the extra guilt) died to save her, she has had to battle the sequels of chemical addiction on her own because she is afraid of hurting people, while constantly in pain from fighting dangerous xenophobes and once again homseless and friendless. BUT of course Fitz’s and Simmons’ feelings of hurt because Daisy walked away take priority over Daisy’s depression, hurt, isolation and her will to protect people.

Every time any of the other characters (except Mack, of course, unless when he has been unfair to Daisy, unless the fandom can use him as a prop to bash Daisy) did something wrong or objectively selfish fandom bent over backwards to justify them and to think about their feelings. Daisy has never made a selfish decision in the whole show yet thinking about her feelings is not something that has ever occurred to fandom.

I’m so tired of this bullshit.

This fandom is in no way, shape, or form, reasonable or objective about Daisy, by and large.  They don’t have empathy for her.