It's ironic, given this canon, how many phans basically use "beauty equals goodness" trope when dealing with Erik. If they find Erik sexy/attractive, of course it means that his personality is better than it seems! Or, in a more high-brow version of this, if his music is so genius, of course he can't be that bad, can he? (This one was pointed out in some review on the Phantom Project/Phantom Library. It said how in this case it's about beauty of the art rather than beauty of the face, but it still runs on the same premise.)
Yes, I, too, strongly dislike it when people cheat on their previous partners or ditch them for others in romances, and it's often treated as no big deal because it's with their True Love. It doesn't help that authors often use previous relationship to showcase how great the new love is in comparison to it. It feels so cruel and dehumanizing if the "ex" is a decent person, and a cheap source of conflict if they are not.
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Date: 2020-05-01 08:27 pm (UTC)Yes, I, too, strongly dislike it when people cheat on their previous partners or ditch them for others in romances, and it's often treated as no big deal because it's with their True Love. It doesn't help that authors often use previous relationship to showcase how great the new love is in comparison to it. It feels so cruel and dehumanizing if the "ex" is a decent person, and a cheap source of conflict if they are not.