#nancy wheeler hate club isftg

[inlovewithrain]

am i the only one who mildly hates nancy wheeler?

like hear me out; i couldn't stand her in s1 and s2, because she's just so selfish, and that carries on in the other seasons.

she practically blamed steve that barb went missing

(she also failed to realize he was also affected)

she cheated on him and then told him in a life-threatening moment

she got jonathan fired and then guilt-tripped him into thinking it was his fault.

she treated barb like absolute shit

she stayed with steve because she couldn't have jonathan

(that plays out in s4 as well. a lot of people say that she didn't; it was obvious that she was jealous of robin for being close to him)

her entire story line is so annoying. i'm sorry to say this but she needs a proper coping mechanism because she's been grieving for like 3 fucking years.

every single season, it's like clockwork. nancy finds something out, she gets mad nobody's believing her, she goes and gets them into MORE trouble.

however, what annoys me the most, is that nancy never apologizes, and she almost NEVER learns from her mistakes. she basically demands respect. in fact she almost basically tells jonathan that 'yeah you're poor but i'm a woman so i have it worse'

however, this also plays into the duffers' brothers writing.

nancy is written incredibly realistically. (she does something, focuses on something, and never realizes that she hurts people along the way.)

but when you rewatch stranger things, forget the 'girl power' and 'omg she's so badass' nancy is an incredibly shitty person and deserves to be called out by it. (she's like lois lane from superman)

honest to god help me if jancy OR stancy happens in s5 i'm actually shitting on the duffer's brother's doorstep.

is it just the duffers brothers poor attempt at writing feminism?

not quite; el or max had very big plotlines, but they were no way as much as an ass as nancy.