Last night wrapped up the first season of Ryan Murphy's newest addiction worthy show,
American Horror Story. A few articles ago, I spoke very highly of the new series and marked it as the show that may have saved horror themed television series. The Golden Globe nominated series has been a thrill ride every week and deserves all of the praise it has been receiving. The character that seems to have taken the world by storm, however, is Evan Peters' portrayal of every teenager's heartthrob ghost, Tate. Now, I'll be honest with you when I say I was totally a Tate fan-girl at the beginning. Evan Peters is a total babe and his character was so evil and yet remarkably charming. He has the surfer hair with the "boy next door" looks encompassed by a sense of danger. Although a total bad ass, he's extremely romantic and seems to know exactly what to say at all the right moments. What girl under the age of 25 wouldn't be cast under his spell?
The relationship between Tate and living girl, Violet became the newest fictional couple to be "shipped" all over the internet and was given the name "Violate". If you just type "violate" or "tate langdon" on the tumblr search bar, you'll be bombarded with hundreds of thousands of images of the two that have been created by fans of the show. Okay, so he had a couple of selfless acts, he got her a flower, told her he loved her, and protected her a bit. That's really endearing and I will not take that away from him. He really did genuinely care about the girl and it was actually sort of nice to see a character trying so hard to make someone else happy. But...
This is a huge but here, let's be honest when I say this...he's a fucking psychopath. To quote the character directly "
In 1994 I set my mom's boyfriend on fire and then I shot fifteen kids at Westfield High. I murdered the gay couple who lived here before you and I raped your wife". Wow. Let's add that up to the fact he's a compulsive liar, manipulative, let the demon in the basement tear apart a girl's face, almost killed a kid who had been there for one night because Violet made eyes at him, and talks shit to his mother? Wow. This is marriage material right here. Yet all it takes is for him to let the water works flow and to stammer out an "I love you" and girls everywhere are dropping their panties. Are you fucking kidding me? This kid is a psychotic nut job and yet he just needs to pout his lips and suddenly all is forgiven. I have been doing a bit of trolling on the fandom message boards just to find out what the hell these girls are thinking, and the results are quite horrifying. "He’s twisted, he’s an imbecile for what he has done. But are we perfect? You are hiding yourself behind a grey face [this means posted anonymously]. I can easily say that you are a coward. I can say that I had my ”fucked up” boyfriends. And I haven’t said that “if treats me ok I’ll love him” No. I said that I love his way of loving Violet. There is difference." But are we perfect?! I'm sorry. I'm not perfect in the slightest but I'm also not running around raping my girlfriend's mother or shooting up the school. You can love someone as much as you want, but if you're a bad person...you're a bad person. No amount of compassion you show towards another person will ever change that.
Oh! Oh! But he loves her sooo much and he protects her! Yeah, so does the police department, but I'm not writing fanfics about that, now am I?
"I think you can tell Tate has changed though, because he asks Gabe not to look at him when he was about to kill him, and he wasn’t killing him to hurt anyone, he was doing it to make Violet happy. Which is sick and twisted, but so adorable and cute. Idk man, I just hope that Violet in the next series gets to see the difference in Tate, and that her Dad tells her that he accepts what he has done." Wait, what? Does this girl realize that she's essentially saying that she would accept people like The Columbine Shooters, or The men who killed Matthew Shepard or I don't know, PEOPLE WHO RAPE THEIR GIRLFRIEND'S MOMS because "they've changed?" This is just demented. Sick. And. Demented.
I blame Edward Cullen for this. That god damn franchise made it okay for girls to "fall in love" with complete lunatics and society made it cool for women to worship the grounds of men who deserve prison time. At least Violet had the mind to leave his crazy ass, even in the afterlife.
/endrant.
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