They're just better at pushing people away to their own detriment.
See, I don't think it's to their own detrement. Yes, everyone needs interaction with others on some level, but that interaction doesn't need to be truly dependent in the emotional-relationship sense. It's making them out to be some sort of pitiful poor darling woobies which is the whole problem of the myth. They're not. They're arseholes because they've chosen to be arseholes. Whether they stand there and say, ala Dr Troy from Nip/Tuck, "Oh, I was abused" or "A woman I loved dumped me and I can never love again" or blah blah blah, excuses excuses, they're just that: excuses. Forever arsehole that uses said excuses there's a million people in the world who had the same experience and didn't become an arsehole. I just detest these types so much in real life I find myself avoiding them in stories, unless they're written purposefully in a bad light (ala The Ultimates) for what they are. Or unless they're reallu really hot, such as Julian McMahon. Did you know his daddy was Prime Minister of Australia?
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Date: 2005-12-06 11:38 pm (UTC)See, I don't think it's to their own detrement. Yes, everyone needs interaction with others on some level, but that interaction doesn't need to be truly dependent in the emotional-relationship sense. It's making them out to be some sort of pitiful poor darling woobies which is the whole problem of the myth. They're not. They're arseholes because they've chosen to be arseholes. Whether they stand there and say, ala Dr Troy from Nip/Tuck, "Oh, I was abused" or "A woman I loved dumped me and I can never love again" or blah blah blah, excuses excuses, they're just that: excuses. Forever arsehole that uses said excuses there's a million people in the world who had the same experience and didn't become an arsehole. I just detest these types so much in real life I find myself avoiding them in stories, unless they're written purposefully in a bad light (ala The Ultimates) for what they are. Or unless they're reallu really hot, such as Julian McMahon. Did you know his daddy was Prime Minister of Australia?