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curiouschaosstarlight · 1 year ago

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The whole fun thing about the double standards of sexism is how it really pervades fandom and demonizes both male and female characters really fucking efficiently so everyone's fine until they say or do something that makes them "unforgivably bad" to someone, but you look at characters of the opposite gender who do the same exact things with either the same or less reasons and the same person will be totally fine with them, and also insist they're not being sexist.

#not important #chaotic rants #men are great! until they're dealt a shit hand and cope “wrong” so they get no sympathy #women are great! they're also pure uwu children that need to be coddled #also all their crimes are forgivable and less than a man's (who will be considered largely irredeemable for the same crimes)#unless those crimes are related to a straight romance in which case the woman will be the worst irredeemable bitch in existence #women need to be more like men and men need to be more like women #(this is not about fun gender fuckery unfortunately this is about a trend i've noticed in fandom)#(where either the female character is coddled and reduced to an innocent bean)#(OR she's given lots of scars and is a “cool badass” traditionally masculine character)#(men are also more likely to be forgiven if they're “a twink” or otherwise ~fem enough~)#if you give someone a m/m and f/f ship to judge then #even if those ships are borderline identical the person will say the side they aren't into is “bad” (usually not so politely)#also you're not allowed to give anyone a m/f ship EVER those are INHERENTLY TOXIC AND ABUSIVE #(an actual take i've actually seen people have non-ironically)#people get so fucking needlessly heated about shipping and it's so stupid #(i get heated about shipping but it's about how actual people actually treat each other not about the ships)#(bc i generally just kind of ship everything)#anyways i dont hate any of these character types on their own #what i do hate is peering into the fandom and seeing two or three character types EXCLUSIVELY and also #lots and lots and lots of needless character bashing #or people insisting there's only One True Way to read a character (and usually being radically off from canon)#yes yes that sounds hypocritical but i s2g it's the people with the most incorrect ideas that insist that #anyone who disagrees with them is WRONG and BAD #im personally not gonna get mad at anyone for having a version of a character i dislike (if it REALLY bothers me i'll just avoid it)#what im talking about is the really unexamined behavior where this one character didnt deserve anything they went through #and is totally fine and needs more love and needs to be treated better by the canon #but you're not allowed to talk about this other character who is about the same in terms of crimes n everything but is the opposite gender #THAT character is irredeemable vile trash you're not allowed to talk about them and you're inherently an abuser if you like them #disclaimer; this is not about any one specific person or character this is a behavior i've seen across multiple fandoms

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