completely agree about kendall/roman. this fandom has this weird take on roman where he's just a baby and needs to be protected at all costs blablabla... like this man has no problem with fascism, in fact, he supports it, he's also unbelievably cruel with his siblings whenever he feels like it and that's alright but the second someone gives him a taste of his own medicine that person is labelled a monster, i really really don't get it
oh my gosh yeah. lol frankly the majority of fandom discourse surrounding those two at the moment is baffling to say the least. i love both characters but i recognize their many, many, many faults. they've both done terrible things. but i find the coddling of Roman atm and the demonization of Kendall to be ridiculous and also an incredibly shallow reading of both characters.
cause yes, Roman's breakdown at Logan's funeral during the euology was heartbreaking to watch and i felt for him but, lets not forget... just 24 hours prior, he was making disgusting racist jokes about black and Jewish people and gleefully installing a known fascist as president. a man with whom he aligns completely with politically and ideologically. Mencken is described in the show as 'the nightmare' and Roman has been pro-Mencken since last season.
also not an hour before the same funeral he made truly some of the most gross incestuous jokes at his baby sister's expense after she told him she was pregnant. and those jokes amount to sexual harassment.
Roman is KNOWN to be super inappropriate with Shiv all the time and it is a pattern and i doubt it started in their adulthood. its something he's been doing no doubt since they were kids.
he also blatantly sexually harassed Gerri by sending her pictures of his genitals. and i find that fandom kinda laughs that off but Gerri, at the end of the day, was a woman asking him to not do that anymore and he continued. just cause Roman delivers his cruelty with a funny joke and a giggle doesn't mean he's not being abusive.
and if we're talking about Kendall not being sensitive to Roman last episode by telling him that he 'fucked it up' with Mencken. i remember distinctly last season, when it was clear that Kendall was at his lowest ebb, Roman was relentlessly cruel to Kendall. pushed him to the ground at his birthday party, was involved in the surveilling of Iverson and Sophie and only stopped because Kendall literally broke down in Italy into a sobbing heap in front of him and Shiv.
and Roman used the same line 'you fucked it' when Kendall expressed that he tried to do what he thought was the right thing at the time.
even when Kendall passively tried to unalive himself, Roman was glib about it. so while i feel for Roman right now, i don't think he should be woobiefied??? or babied?? that kind of shit is the opposite of everything this show stands for tbh...
Roman has suffered yes, but i'm not about to play abuse Olympics when it comes to the siblings and the hurt they've ALL had to contend with.
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