A Fresh Plate of Rei-hate from TVTropes
Okay, before I get to the report, there's a few disclaimers I have to get through. Disclaimer the first, I actually like TVTropes, and am a member there. I know it's got this reputation in certain corners of the Internet (including, based on that Nozomi post, this one) for being full of creepers who loudly trumpet the fact that they spank the monkey to pictures of people sticking eggplants up their rectum and stuff like that, but I barely even knew that stuff was there until I was informed it had been cut. I genuinely think it's a great site and the non-creepy people there are great.
Okay, moving on. Disclaimer the second, I'm a Shinji/Rei shipper, so I'm not entirely unbiased here. And disclaimer the third, this isn't really a defense post, because, well, the people who weren't hating on Rei in the thread did an excellent job of defending her themselves, and I can't think of a way to say it better than they can.
So, with that out of the way...
So, there we were, in the Evangelion thread, discussing our shipping preferences. It was actually quite civil (say what you will about TVTropes, but they're surprisingly tolerant of most pairings), bar one person talking in ALL CAPS who I think was trying to troll. Into this discussion, then, comes a fellow with the handle "Chariot," who makes this post about why he prefers Asuka for Shinji. Okay, this is already pretty inflammatory, but I guess it could be understandable. I mean, I occasionally express my dislike for characters too, but it's the writing I take issue with (for example, X-23 under Craig Kyle and Chris Yost). He follows this up with another post saying that, apparently, emotionless half-alien-abominations don't "deserve" love. But it descends into flat-out bashing with his third post.
I'll let that speak for itself.
To the other Tropers' credit, they don't take this lying down, rebutting his argument (if you can even call it that) with big walls o' text and this nifty montage... which Chariot proceeds to completely ignore, rejecting the canon reality and substituting his own just for the sake of his argument, and speaking of his argument, he ends it with the absolute most LOLariously stupid thing I've ever heard a basher say. Are you ready for this?
"It doesn't matter if my argument doesn't make sense because I'm entitled to my own opinion."
EHL OH EHL.
By the way, I'm in there; I'm the guy with the Wither avatar (yet another character that needs more love).
This same guy is also bashing Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Crow Hogan in that thread, so he doesn't even have the decency to confine himself to one fandom...
Okay, moving on. Disclaimer the second, I'm a Shinji/Rei shipper, so I'm not entirely unbiased here. And disclaimer the third, this isn't really a defense post, because, well, the people who weren't hating on Rei in the thread did an excellent job of defending her themselves, and I can't think of a way to say it better than they can.
So, with that out of the way...
So, there we were, in the Evangelion thread, discussing our shipping preferences. It was actually quite civil (say what you will about TVTropes, but they're surprisingly tolerant of most pairings), bar one person talking in ALL CAPS who I think was trying to troll. Into this discussion, then, comes a fellow with the handle "Chariot," who makes this post about why he prefers Asuka for Shinji. Okay, this is already pretty inflammatory, but I guess it could be understandable. I mean, I occasionally express my dislike for characters too, but it's the writing I take issue with (for example, X-23 under Craig Kyle and Chris Yost). He follows this up with another post saying that, apparently, emotionless half-alien-abominations don't "deserve" love. But it descends into flat-out bashing with his third post.
I'll let that speak for itself.
To the other Tropers' credit, they don't take this lying down, rebutting his argument (if you can even call it that) with big walls o' text and this nifty montage... which Chariot proceeds to completely ignore, rejecting the canon reality and substituting his own just for the sake of his argument, and speaking of his argument, he ends it with the absolute most LOLariously stupid thing I've ever heard a basher say. Are you ready for this?
"It doesn't matter if my argument doesn't make sense because I'm entitled to my own opinion."
EHL OH EHL.
By the way, I'm in there; I'm the guy with the Wither avatar (yet another character that needs more love).
This same guy is also bashing Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Crow Hogan in that thread, so he doesn't even have the decency to confine himself to one fandom...