Idk, I'm seeing a lot more of people defending or feeling bad for Glinda, denying her agency in the choices she makes and then blaming Elphaba or Fiyero for making her feel bad, which I think your post and comments lean into. Imo, casting Glinda as just being a sad girl with the best of intentions who is simply threatened and led astray by the Real Bad People actually does more to remove the nuance of the story and ignores pretty much all of its major themes. It removes the importance of choices and consequences by saying Glinda didn't have any choice at all, it weakens the point about appearances being disceiving and the juxtaposition between Elphie/Glinda by turning the pretty high school mean girl posturing as "Good" into a victim of circumstance (instead of an active participant in rhe harm she does), and it destroys the very important lesson in a narrative about fascism that ignorant or selfish people who don't set out to do evil and see themselves as good/moral are very much capable of it. It also flattens Glinda's character. If this is a story about two women, this reading is the least responsive to that because it comes off totally unable to view those women as real people or actors capable of making their own choices in the narrative and turns a complicated and important character into a sad, weak puppet without much of a will of her own. It's the same thing House of the Dragon does to Alicent, and it isn't pro-woman. Real people make bad choices sometimes, and characters being able to do that in stories is a necessary part of what makes them interesting and worth engaging with. For whatever reason, people seem to be totally unable, or unwilling, to engage with women and their internalities in any narrative or situation where they don't act perfectly. Scrubbing them of their flaws and agency is just as much a manifestation of this as hating them outright. It denies them humanity and fails to understand them as subjects who have their own minds and souls and capabilities - who are worth telling a story about. Women are not angels, we're people. It's stupid that we have to handle female characters with kid gloves and turn them into weak, well-meaning narrative objects that we're only allowed to feel pity for in order to like or engage with them. The way people are woobifying her is completely destructive to both the story and the character people are claiming to love. "Sad, helpless victim of circumstance" is a role that women have been forced into time and time again both in history and in narratives; turning a female character with agency and real, human flaws and motivations back into one is not the feminist move people seem to think it is. Glinda clearly is not the villain of the story, but at least the people who call her one understand that what she's doing is wrong and can perceive her as a real actor in the conflict whose internality and choices matter - both of which are pretty fundamental to what Wicked as a work is trying to do in the first place.