IM ROLLING, THATS WHERE CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT HAPPENS ANON-

IM ROLLING, THATS WHERE CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT HAPPENS ANON-

I'm sorry Stan is a misogynist. He does sexist shit in Tourist Trapped, Headhunters, The Hand that Rocks the Mabel, Dipper vs Manliness, Dreamscaperers, Roadside Attraction, and probably more but those are the notable ones where he either harassed women, tried to dictate or disparage a woman's interests, held men to standards of toxic masculinity, or encouraged other men to harass women. "Stan worked through his misogyny in the seventies" he absolutely did not he at the most generous estimation started working on it in 2012. Like write him however you want but if we're talking "there's no textual evidence for someone not being a misogynist" there is absolutely no textual evidence that Stan ever "worked through his misogyny" in the 70s and 80s. He literally arranged a marriage between Mabel and Gideon for profit what do you MEAN he's not a misogynist. "It makes Ford a better character to work through a big flaw" and what does taking away a flaw do for Stan???

to be clear, i never claimed that stan is a perfect person or not misogynistic either. i'd be lying if i were to say that he's completely absolved of criticism for how he acts because of the analysis on his past. he's a much more sympathetic character than ford is but that doesn't mean that i'm not taking his faults into question. obviously he's going to be kind of misogynistic and make off color comments to women, he's an elderly capitalist. however, i choose to look at him with a little more nuance than "he either is a bad person or he isn't." he's a complex character, just like ford is.

as for the things he does: the arranged marriage was more of him jumping on an investment opportunity, i doubt he would force mabel to have a baby with gideon or something. his demeaning statements towards dippers masculinity stem from his own upbringing and insecurities. again, i'm not absolving him if criticism because of my analysis of him in the 80's, i just think it's kind of ridiculous that you're assuming that i think he has no faults. it's almost like all of the people in this show are well rounded and have both good and bad characteristics.