I'd like to blame English courses for drilling it into teenager's heads that every piece of literature was written with a target audience and has some kind of moral message behind it that they are now applying it to every work of fiction they consume.

So now, they're all searching for meanings or "what's the author trying to convey in their work of fiction" that they forget that writers don't HAVE to include any type of lesson into the works they create. OR inject their views/personalities/values into any of their characters.

It's just so tiring seeing the same stupid argument being used. "Oh, but the author is in control of their OCs! So obviously they are putting their views into their characters!"

No? Do you think every writer wants to write about THEMSELVES? That's called an autobiography.

Moral of this thread: Stop looking for guidance in fiction. Stop LOOKING at fiction or hunting down content with THEMES THAT REPULSE YOU and act like it's the creator's fault. YOU sought it out. YOU can leave through the same door you came in through.