Get well soon! I wouldn't have noticed, you sound coherent as ever to me.
I have a feeling if those issues had been explored . . . we would have a lot more Ozai apologists running around and annoying me
Haha, very true. I'm pretty sure they'd be much like Zuko apologists who insist everything Zuko did in the show was justified.
Even as things stand Ozai is not lacking in apologists. Loopy described a run-in with one here (http://ljlee.livejournal.com/40346.html?thread=354458#t354458), for instance. In a development that should surprise no one, the Ozai apologist Spirit of Flame was since banned from the forum for rape apologism or something.
What I mean by the fundamental truth I want them to understand is that Azula didn't have a breakdown because she loved them oh so much.
Only for extremely disturbing definitions of "love." My dad had an emotional breakdown over my marrying my boyfriend (now husband), which got so bad at one point that I fled the house. He insisted it was because he loved me so much that he could not bear the thought of my marrying an unworthy man. Except this "unworthy" man is a perfectly nice and normal middle-class, college-educated man with no abusive tendencies, addictions, criminal history, or even disabilities, who loves me very much and whom I am very much in love with. He just happened not to meet my dad's arbitrary and sexist standards for what my husband should be like. Dad's tantrums over our marriage were a tool for emotional control, not the result of anything anyone should recognize as love. There's no way a narcissistic meltdown over another person's valid life choices can be called any kind of love, unless we say entitlement and abuse equal love. *shudder*
With Azula, I think it's less about missed opportunities than it is about opportunities taken... by Ozai.
Very true. I don't understand how anyone can think "Azula was born with psychopath tendencies" is mutually exclusive with "Azula was abused my Ozai." If anything, Azula's inborn tendencies made her even more vulnerable to irreversible harm than Zuko.
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Date: 2015-04-13 04:41 pm (UTC)Haha, very true. I'm pretty sure they'd be much like Zuko apologists who insist everything Zuko did in the show was justified.
Even as things stand Ozai is not lacking in apologists. Loopy described a run-in with one here (http://ljlee.livejournal.com/40346.html?thread=354458#t354458), for instance. In a development that should surprise no one, the Ozai apologist Spirit of Flame was since banned from the forum for rape apologism or something.
Only for extremely disturbing definitions of "love." My dad had an emotional breakdown over my marrying my boyfriend (now husband), which got so bad at one point that I fled the house. He insisted it was because he loved me so much that he could not bear the thought of my marrying an unworthy man. Except this "unworthy" man is a perfectly nice and normal middle-class, college-educated man with no abusive tendencies, addictions, criminal history, or even disabilities, who loves me very much and whom I am very much in love with. He just happened not to meet my dad's arbitrary and sexist standards for what my husband should be like. Dad's tantrums over our marriage were a tool for emotional control, not the result of anything anyone should recognize as love. There's no way a narcissistic meltdown over another person's valid life choices can be called any kind of love, unless we say entitlement and abuse equal love. *shudder*
Very true. I don't understand how anyone can think "Azula was born with psychopath tendencies" is mutually exclusive with "Azula was abused my Ozai." If anything, Azula's inborn tendencies made her even more vulnerable to irreversible harm than Zuko.