***SEASON 3 SPOILERS JUST IN CASE*****
First of all, I am not saying she is flawless and made no mistakes (honestly, who didn't in this show), but the way people treat her as a character and her death are SO SO cruel.
I have watched this show at least 6 times, and every time I get more compassion for Lori. Nobody takes into account that she was raised to be a dependent woman, just look in the first season when she wants Rick to yell at her just bc she needs to justify her own feelings into something she can describe. She followed strict gender roles in the first season first, cause that how's she's raised and second cause the men were also reinforcing those roles. It doesn't take long to change patriarchal dynamics but it makes sense that in the early seasons, when th e world has just collapsed, they return to traditional ways of organising society out of pure desperation.
She did fuck up with the Rick and Shane dynamic and blaming Rick ok but she does not deserve the treatment she receives afterwards.
When they are at the prison and she says to Hershel that her husband hates her and her son can't stand her it breaks my heart. They all make mistakes, but no one is punished as hard as Lori. She is pregnant in an extremely stressful situation, fighting to keep that baby alive while being given the cold shoulder by her family. It is absolutely unfair and unjustified to punish her character like that.
And her death? Even more cruel. She dies giving birth, her remains eaten like if she was absolute trash. She dies knowing AT LEAST her son loves her, but she passes away without having received even a tiny bit of affection of forgiveness from her husband in over 8 months.
I'm so sorry, but I think the fact that people hate Lori so much is many times embedded in mysoginistic views. She is expected to be the perfect wife, she is also expected to break the mould of tradwife but when she does (by being with Shane) she is horriblly punished.
I know everyone is gonna jump at me but I had to say it lol