Ye gods... I'm not sure anyone's written Dee as a rapist, per se. But she's certainly tricked him into marrying her and stalked him, iirc. And yes, the basis is mostly, "omg, I don't like her" for the hatred and character-assassination.
people who were dead set on an OTP despite hating one of the two characters involved
Oh, you've met the Sam Carter/Jack O'Neill yahoo mailing list where they only love Sam if she conforms to a certain romance-novel-stereotype, have you?
The sad thing is that there is a huge amount of that going around, in many fandoms--I was reading author notes on an Elizabeth Swann fic, where the author admitted she only likes Lizzie Swann when she can warp her character in fic.
It mostly (lecture mode: on) harkens back to the simple fact that female characters are held to different standards than male ones.
And to apologize for my bingo square, have some tequila rose.
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people who were dead set on an OTP despite hating one of the two characters involved
Oh, you've met the Sam Carter/Jack O'Neill yahoo mailing list where they only love Sam if she conforms to a certain romance-novel-stereotype, have you?
The sad thing is that there is a huge amount of that going around, in many fandoms--I was reading author notes on an Elizabeth Swann fic, where the author admitted she only likes Lizzie Swann when she can warp her character in fic.
It mostly (lecture mode: on) harkens back to the simple fact that female characters are held to different standards than male ones.
And to apologize for my bingo square, have some tequila rose.