Hot Take: Bridgerton Fans Are Not Wrong to Hate Marina

Bridgerton 's Marina seems to know the answer to that question. It turns out that fans still can't let go of her horrible mistakes in the past and still despise her for the things she did to other people.

From the beginning, she was ungrateful for being taken in by the Featheringtons. And she tried to show it every chance she got.

Fans say that her character wasn't likable, despite the sad story behind her. Well, this is a result of both the writer's work and the actress' performance.

The only thing that makes fans sympathize a little is that she is an unmarried girl in the 1800s who gets pregnant. So they feel sorry for her situation, not for her. Because the way she wanted to handle it all was quite questionable, if not evil.

Take Colin, for example. The younger Bridgerton, who fell in love with Marina as soon as he saw her. Her looks, her manners and her behavior made him foolishly fall for her.

Little did he know what was in store for him. Marina had tons of men calling on her and she could have picked anyone, but she chose Colin.

And even though she said it was something about "feeling a glimpse of happiness," we all know that the main reason was his title and the fact that he is young and naïve enough to be fooled.

All of this proves another point, Marina is also not a good friend. In the series she's only had one person that truly cared for her, it's Penelope.

And even when she found out that Pen's love interest was Colin, she didn't back out. On the contrary, she insulted her to her face and continued with her awful manipulative plan.

Still, after all the nonsense Marina went through, there are some fans who somehow understand her and the pressure she was under back then.

"The love of her life died, she's unwed and pregnant, what could she have done? Scheming is wrong, but it is not hard to understand why she did what she did.

Funny how we blame a young woman instead of the pressures of society put on these girls. The frivolous expectations of polite society is the reason why a woman's future would be ruined rather than her being empathized with.

Especially since people forgave Anthony for promising Daphne to Lord Berbrooke without her permission and despite her protests," Reddit user catxlundry said.

Well, there can always be a way to bring up sexism; but it doesn't mean that female characters are immune to fan criticism.