#as always when this topic comes up i think of the spanish leftist politician who was asked whether he preferred batman or superman

[laufire]

there are few things in fandom as annoying as the people who desperately want to be perceived as caring about female or minority characters MORE THAN ANYONE EVER, especially when their entire space is an amalgam made up of shrines to white dudes (as if people can't tell the difference between that and the poorly slapped together collages and half-melted figures of clay dedicated to everyone else). the levels of performativity and virtue signalling and aggressive defensiveness reached get frankly radioactive. why do any self-reflection (or even simply be unapologetic about your tastes in fiction and actually do something helpful for real people!) when you can twist yourself into a pretzel to claim bigotry OBVIOUSLY has no effect on fandom (or anything else you might do or think, ever! because you're PROGRESSIVE!!) and, actually, your favourite dude is somehow the worst victim of misogyny in the entire story?