#and that behaviour has a precedent!! he's been violent and predatory before this!! he continues to be! | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

normalbrothers · 2 months

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though in all seriousness i can't get over how people just gloss over how violently he grabs/squeezes her throat twice in the show and the second time he sexually assaults her on top and this having so little impact on how arthur's character as a whole is seen by the fandom

#and that behaviour has a precedent!! he's been violent and predatory before this!! he continues to be!#he's clumsy and has no emotional filter and in some ways this can be fairly endearing but he's also *violent*#and this isn't good. like he's not a good man hdhdh #peaky blinders #i do love him he's very touching to me though that's not the point but mostly the way people talk about him is so annoying #like i'm with lana del rey and consorts on that one but come on #and when the issue of his violence comes up it's often in the context of how it affects him and sure. he's ashamed of this #but he's also very much hurting others #i think it made functionally little difference for the kid he beat to death if he sort of felt bad about it afterwards #or the men and boys he targeted before that

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