In response to the fandom’s hatred and judgement of Jasper because of his PTSD and depression:

Don’t even pretend that if the roles were reversed, with the men staying stoic and the women being the ones to outwardly grieve, that you wouldn’t be pissed about the misogyny of it all. Tumblr, and the media, hell even society is so transparent. Strong female characters suddenly stop being strong when they start showing that they have emotions and can be damaged. So if you were seeing Clarke or Raven “wallowing in their grief and being dead weight” because of all that they’d lost, y’all would be angry at the writers for making the women weaker than the men. Now instead, the show decided to turn all of this on it’s head by making most of the female characters good at adapting to trauma and fear, while making the men be open and honest with how they’re feeling. This goes against all supposed beliefs about what men “should” be, which is the strong, brave, emotionless robots you people who are shitting on Jasper think they should be.

This may come as a shock, but men can get PTSD. Men can have depression. Men can have self-hatred. Men can be scared out of their minds. Men can be overwhelmed with their regrets. The one time a show tries to show that, to show that men don’t always have to be strong but that it’s okay for them to be vulnerable, it’s okay for them to cry, it’s okay for them have mental health issues, the fandom vilifies them, calls them dead weight, and cheers on the villain of the story for tearing them down even more. Anyone who shits on Jasper for having depression disgusts me and needs to look long and hard at themselves and their prejudices against mental health. Because bare in mind, Jasper got speared in the first episode of this show and has had a pretty traumatizing time since then. He’s allowed to be a little messed up by that.

(note: I already wrote this on a reblog, but thought it should be it’s own post)