#“is Lois even a necessary character when Bats does the same thing in a Superbat ship” like what. Lois is a woman for one-

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“if you hide your conservative opinions on women in cute progressive aesthetic you'd get away with a lot”- from what I have seen in fandoms, doing the bare minimum of avoiding sexist bullcrap in interpreting white characters means you can then indulge in the exact same crap regarding poc female characters with so-called progressive fans applauding you for it. These people love calling out sexism and racism when its from stereotypical dudebros; but when its from them, then its a natural response

Oh yeah! It's kind of wild how branding is essentially everything lol. Supposedly progressive fans will eat up a really conservative take on Lois (not an accomplished career woman, infantilized, her best accomplishment according to ep 7 is "being a good girlfriend", also "worst Lois in the multiverse") if you shoot enough characters with the diversity beam you'll have fans defend it. I've wondered before if Snyder's take on Supes would have been better received if it was presented like MAWS (because MAWS has repeated many of Snyder's bad creative decisions with far less fandom criticism).

It's transparent how differently fandom treats white male characters compared to WOC. If a writer wrote a bad run on their favorite white boy it's "grr this writer doesn't understand him! I ignore that take" but if a WOC is written lazily by a white writer, it's "I hate her she's awful when I catch you girlie, etc" and so little criticism is made for the racism of the white author who wrote her. They'll hide it all under saying they care about representation or feminism but it's clear that white characters with flawed writing are given way more of a chance and lenience in comparison to a flawed WOC character.