The Louisa hate is so forced
Going through this sub, I see so so so many posts bashing Louisa's character. It's one thing to critique the flaws of a character-- but the way her haters go about it is so vitriolic and misogynistic.
Martin and Louisa are literal mirrors of each other, the show takes great care in expanding the kind of social norms expected of both Neurodivergent men and women. This is not even me grasping at straws to come to this conclusion, when many other people who have watched this show agree that both Louisa and Martin are neurodiverse. I feel like the people on the sub still perpetuate those social norms in the way they discuss Louisa.
"Misogyny is hating women-- look up the definition" I want you to look up the definition of Covert Misogyny then. The kind of misogyny that seems sooo small and innocuous that people can pass it off as critique because it's just that slyly worded to seem so.
Genuinely, I cannot fathom the way people put Louisa under this magnifying glass. She had faults and she has flaws, talking about them isn't wrong, talking about her shortcomings and discussing her own dynamic within herself is not misogynistic. That's not my point.
It's the way she is talked about that is entirely misogynistic.
"I laughed when she got run over!" Covert misogyny.
"She's nothing but a nagging harpy!" Covert misogyny-- though, this is more overt than anything. 'Harpy' is a word used against women in place of other words like 'B*tch'.
Some people on this sub have a genuine problem with misogyny. It makes me sad to think that their only takeaway from a show so meticulous with the portrayal of their characters would say such flagrantly awful things about Louisa.