My mother is literally worse than my father, but of course movies and tv shows love their cliches and never show reality for what it is.
Also wtf is the “Abused child forgive abusive parent and reunite happily ever after” trope, fuck that shit. Abusers do not deserve forgiveness.
I hate writer jesus christ ffs.
Edit: typo
Carrie, precious, tangled, mommie dearest, black swan, ghosts (US), Strange New Worlds, Sopranos, Bojack Horseman, plenty of movies and shows with abusive mothers
Because women are wonderful. Look it up.
Like Marine Le Pen? Park Geun-hye? Marjorie Taylor Greene? Lauren Bobert?
lol don’t forget Anna Paulina Luna
Both of my parents were abusive in their own special way.
Both of my parents were abusive in their own special way.
I’m a third of the way through a sorceress comes to call and it’s definitely the mom in that!
Betty Davis in The Little Foxes
Sopranos, she literally tries to kill him.
Strange to make a gender distinction here. I know people love their categories, but I’m curious to know how your outlook focused on gender rather than other characteristics like race or nationality
I’ve seen plenty of abusive mothers on tv. But they aren’t physical in their abuse.
But have a look at “Precious” if you want to be triggered.
And then have a look at the making of “Precious,” if you want to be furious at Oprah and Tyler Perry, who refused to pay Monique and then spread false rumors about her to kill her career
Malcom in the middle did it
Along with all the other examples listed here:
The Bear
Also wtf is the “Abused child forgive abusive parent and reunite happily ever after” trope, fuck that shit. Abusers do not deserve forgiveness.
No, but depending on circumstances and the work the abuser is willing to put into changing themself and making things as right as they can, forgiveness can be earned.
It is represented in media, see the film Mommy Dearest. Even in the Wizard of Oz the woman is the abuser. The series The Terror streaming now, woman the abuser. Fatal Attraction, Cruella, Misery, Carrie, etc.
Tangled
Big Fish
Ok. You named a handful of examples. I’m sure there’s a handfull more.
But I could literally reach the character limit if I attempted to show all the examples of men in media being the abuser.
So you aren’t wrong per se. But you are still missing the point.
OP said “always” and “never.” So I’m not really sure what the purpose of this discussion is beyond refuting those superlatives. Is the idea that there needs to be more physically abusive women in fiction? Or fewer men? What is the ideal?
The Terror? I must be forgetting something because there are barely any women in that show at all as far as I recall.
Check the 2nd season
Alpha from The Walking Dead.
Boy, you’ve obviously never seen Precious (2009)
FWIW, in fairy tales the mother is the bad parent more often than not.
The stepmother, as the mother is usually dead.
