you know what really pisses me off??? people who can’t tell the difference between dark!betty and discovering my sexuality!betty. they are two VERY different things. let’s use last episode for example. betty was wearing her wig and that bra aka her ‘dark’ betty costume. THAT WAS NOT DARK BETTY. she used that costume to have a fun time and discover her sexuality with her boyfriend. someone who she loves and trusts. dark!betty is shown when she is in a bad mental state and uses the persona as an out, while making bad decisions and risking herself. that was NOT the case in 2×14. please know the difference.
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She literally said she brought it in case he needed a distraction! That should tell everyone it was more for fun/sexual pleasure than any mental health issues. She thought about it in advance, decided he might enjoy it and took it with her in case. No dark Betty here.
But guys, that is exactly the problem. The fact that she uses the same outfit when dark!Betty emerges and when she’s trying to discover her sexuality, therefore linking them, is profoundly disturbing. It romanticizes, not to mention sexualizes, mental illness and that is NOT okay. She put the same outfit on when almost boiling a man and when having sex with her boyfriend and even acknowledges it and it’s portrayed as perfectly normal. That is not okay. At all.
She wasn’t having a DarkBetty moment. Just because she wore the same outfit does not mean she is “sexualizing mental illness.” And to say that is, quite frankly, ridiculous. She was enjoying a fun, sexy moment with her boyfriend – not experiencing a dark betty moment. This just seems like grasping at straws honestly on your part.
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