They’re only human, which is to say they’re bad at this. They can in fact come to the realization that Joyce is worth caring about even when her existential trauma is kind of annoying I guess. They’re Joyce’s friends, they’ll figure it out because they care about her. That’s fine, that’s why they’re idiot children. It’s harsh for them, it’s unstable, it’s fucked and they don’t get it because Joyce has been This Way and now she’s That Way. You know, like how we treat actual real life human beings in the same way on the grounds “I don’t care how traumatized you are, there’s no need for rude language!” which is merely unethical from outside observers, substantially less from people who say they care about you and then stop when it gets inconvenient. She’s supposed to outgrow being a fundie moron, but she was supposed to end up like Dorothy. They had Joyce in a nice box and she stepped out of it in a way they don’t understand, so it’s easier to blame Joyce for raising a fuss, reacting in the immediate aftermath of that perception of her changing in a way that’s been bubbling for a long time, that is the endpoint of what they wanted of her, but without the part where she gets mad about it. Yeah I get that, that’s why they’re idiot children in a series that’s a pun on the phrase “coming of age.”
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