[ SECRET POST #3998 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3998 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[comma_chameleon]

Don't know the character/show (person?) so I don't know exactly what she's been through, but... plenty of people have uber crappy lives and manage not to become shitty people. It's not a given that if the world shits on you that you automatically become a shit person.

[(Anonymous)]

I was gonna comment the exact same thing. I do watch the show, and I can't stand her. The stuff she's been through is a serious illness, a miscarriage, and breaking up with her fiance, and yes, those things are difficult and affect someone, but it's no excuse to be a horrible person. I feel like she's to blame for the breakup because she treated him like shit, and in general she's just incredibly smug and arrogant and self-righteous in the way she treats the patients (she's a nurse).

And now she's in a relationship with a character I really liked prior to him getting together with her. Pretty much all the fans hate them together, there's zero chemistry, and there was absolutely no indication that either of them had any interest whatsoever in each other before they suddenly got together out of the blue. It made NO sense whatsover, and it's just a horrible relationship.

She also has this horrible obnoxious immature arrogant jackass little brother who's gotten with another character I really like (and I really loved her and her ex together, they had a great relationship, and they broke them up for seemingly no reason so that she could get with April's brother).

I'm SO close to giving up the show, and April is a huge part of it. I'd almost think the OP was trolling if the show wasn't basically completely unknown here, because I don't think I've ever come across anyone who's a fan and can stand April.

[philstar22]

Her brother is obnoxious, but I haven't yet seen April being obnoxious. I'm only halfway through season 2, though, so maybe she changes.

[(Anonymous)]

She doesn't particularly change much between then and now, so if you don't think she's obnoxious so far, you probably won't change your mind. The way she handled the whole TB diagnosis/pregnancy/engagement thing made her incredibly unlikable to me, but obviously mileage varies.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't watch the show, but here's my life:

molested as a child

miscarriage at 19

a couple of chronic illnesses which, while they wouldn't have directly killed me, have made me wish I was dead at certain points in my life

ended up alone after a relationship of several years (and that I was thinking was heading toward marriage) flamed out

took care of my grandmother during the last several years of her life, while her marbles were slipping away, and finally had to tell the doctors to stop trying CPR (after they ignored the fucking DNR in the first place)

And yet, despite all of that, I'm not a dick. Occasionally sarcastic, and I can get impatient and sometimes downright rude when I'm having a bad pain day. But despite everything, I've managed to be a decent human being; I'm not deliberately cruel and even when I fall short of my ideals, at least I have them to fall short of.

I'm so sick of the whole "asshole with a traumatic backstory that somehow makes their assholery okay (and people who call them on their horrible behavior or just walk away rather than putting up with it are treated by the narrative like they're the horrible ones)" trope.

Apparently I have a lot to say about a secret for a TV show I don't even watch.

[(Anonymous)]

One of my favorite gags on Scrubs was when Elliot asked Jordan why she was so awful and she told her that her parents were really mean, and Elliot was using that to excuse her behavior to people until Jordan finally admitted that her parents were great and she’s just an asshole for no reason.

The US in general has a bit of a tragedy fetish. It’s not a new thing, but the shift from “tragedy makes you a better person” to “tragedy makes your assholery okay” is a little troublesome. I mean, neither one of those is correct. At the end of the day, tragedy makes you sad. But at least the first trope invokes the desire to become a better person instead of the desire to be an asshole and get away with it.

[philstar22]

In this case, though, I don't personally think she's obnoxious or an asshole. I'm not really sure what other people are getting at. Sorry you went through all of that, though.