@Your_Dino_Overlord People hate the brothers because of how they abuse Penelope. There’s no denying it—from Reynold’s constant harassment right up to Derrick’s extreme victim-blaming, their treatment of her is textbook abuse. They miss their lost sister, and yes, it is tragic and they deserve a level of sympathy for it, but while it explains their abuse, it doesn’t justify or excuse it.
I’m not suggesting you think it’s justification, and there’s nothing wrong with sympathising with them either. Liking them is personal preference and it is absolutely not my place to tell you otherwise. But it
is problematic that you “don’t understand the hate.” That means that you, too, “don’t understand” the severity of suffering that Penelope endures as a result of their antagonism, and that you’re overlooking their hostile behaviour for the sake of angelic sympathy. In fact, the very fact that you claim “they are just like the mc” is evident of how little you truly comprehend her experiences.
I deeply apologise if this comes off as an attack towards your opinion, as this wasn’t my intention. But I’m very tired of seeing people who think that sympathising with abusers means to oversimplify the roots of abuse, and worse still, treat adult abusers who ought to have better self-awareness and self-discipline with a sympathy you’d give to a temperamental child struggling through growing pains.