/lit/ - Literature

>>4935951
>Mary Sues exist because children who are told they’re nothing want to be everything.

I always assumed the opposite: that Mary Sues are a creation of the same people told that they're "special snowflakes", that they can be anyone and do anything as long as they put their mind to it, that it's a thing that comes about just as someone (boys can write Mary Sues too, although it's rarer) who realizes those things aren't true but clings to them. Mary Sues are created because parents raise their children to think that they're perfect and unique and base happiness on impossible success in life.

While there may be some fat girl in her room writing about Ebony “Enoby” Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way and just how perfect her life could be if she weren't a nerdy little fat girl, the only reason she's feeling that way isn't because she's told she's nothing - it's because she was told that she could be anything and yet obviously can't.