every time I see someone say that Curly was a good person in a bad situation that he handled poorly or anything like that, I think about a conversation I had with a coworker at a former job of mine
I don't remember how we got on this topic, but he was talking about how recently there had been a huge explosion in a friend group of his, because it came out that a guy in the friend group had raped a girl
so he stopped being friends with that guy, obviously, and also cut off anybody who didn't also stop being friends with him, because, as he put it,
"I don't fuck with people who fuck with people I don't fuck with, if that makes sense"
you either think being a rapist is an acceptable thing to be, or you don't, and he didn't want to be friends with anybody who thought it was acceptable
Curly thinks it's acceptable
it's impossible to tell if Curly knew what Jimmy did to Anya before the week leading up to the crash or if Anya tells him about it during that time period, because it so clearly does not affect how he interacts with Jimmy unless they are directly addressing the fallout, where the problem to address is that
consequences are occurring and not that Jimmy is a fucking rapist
Curly keeps acting like he can mediate the situation between Jimmy and Anya but you can't mediate a rape, dipshit
Curly treats it like an unfortunate whoopsie on Jimmy's part and not a serious crime he actively committed
he didn't trip and accidentally land with his dick in her, dude, it was an active act of malice, fucking treat it like one!
fuck that guy, moral backbone of a goddamn slinky
thinking about how after Anya hides the gun case, Curly expresses concern about her mental health and says that if she was feeling stressed, she should have come to him.
"what would you have done?" "anything. anything."
SHE DID TELL YOU AND YOU DIDN'T DO SHIT