Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-28162607-20180101191335/@comment-28162607-20180114154157

CoolDudeAl wrote: Aine1989 wrote: Thing is, whenever Regina apologises to Snow it always ends up with Snow making some nonsensical statement about how its all ok. Like in 6x01, Regina says she was a bad stepmother and Snow then says that she taught her how to have hope. Which is complete bullcrap. Snow is now crediting Regina for her ownn personality, she was built by Regina. Which is another form of victim blaming; the victim is defined by the abuse they sufferd.

3x18 saw Snow, a victim, apologise to Regina, the abuser, for killing her mother in defence of her family, and Regina then compared it to her killing Leopold in cold blood as if they were the same thing. Then Snow saying that she and Regina would have fought anyway because she was "a brat" and so that made Regina's persecution and abuse of her ok. Okay, I see what the problem is now. You are equating Snow's personality to the show victim blaming her. Snow saying things are her fault too is how Snow deals with conflict. It is one of the things that makes her the Snow White character. So your complaint isn't really even with Regina, it is with how Snow is written. But like I said, that is Snow's character. If they didn't write her that way, she would be a different character. My complaint is Snow being written like that to prop up Regina.

My complaint is the narrative supporting and endorsing the idea that Regina's abuse of Snow is justified becuase she was a "brat" (which she was not)