@cigarette williams i want to second your point about rosemary because while obviously there’s a point to be made that theres a degree of manipulation to meat rose, in candy, a timeline completely devoid of dirk’s bullshit, rose ruins her own marriage by falling into similar nihilistic patterns of thinking about things and personal relationships in “the grander scheme of things” and using a bunch of philosophising bullshit to basically just ruin her relationships with the people around her.

the truth is rose as a character is prone to the flaw of philosophising and overthinking her way into fucking up her personal relationships, i mean she spends her entire childhood doing that to her mother! while, yes, dirk is abusing her, there’s a reason she comes to him and keeps indulging in his bullshit. i feel like reducing a bunch of these characters to their sexualities and archetypes erases the grander nuance present in the narrative.