#i saw yet another post blaming ryan guzman's racism on his wife today

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when I say the 911 fandom has a misogyny problem I mean it to say its very telling how fans of this show will blame every problem with it on women.

The amount of blame Kristen Reidel gets for "leading to the show getting cancelled" when in reality 911 was the number one show on FOX and the network just didn't want to pay for it because it's expensive to produce. That's why ABC bought the show, because it was still a hit and they were willing to spend the money that FOX wasn't (Also in my person opinion, seasons 5-6 were way more cohesive as seasons of TV than season 7 and 8 so far. )

Just because a female show runner makes a decision you don't personally like doesn't mean "she ruined the show" (especially when she is responsible for a lot of the things you love about the show (Like Ravi actually having plot relevance and getting fleshed out as a character, Henren begins among other things) but don't want to give her credit for those plot points)

Or the fact that anytime someone brings up Ryan Guzman's history of racism and antisemitism people blame it on his ex wife. I don't know how to tell you this, but grown men can make their own decisions. Yeah his ex wife also may be a terrible person but that doesn't make Ryan Guzman any less culpable for insisting it's ok to say slurs and comparing vaccines to the holocaust. He said those things! It is not "his wife's fault" that he said racist things. Be serious, let him take accountability instead of brushing it off and blaming it on women. Him getting divorced doesn't mean his actions don't have an impact anymore

And let's not forget that women in this show are never treated with any depth and are always seen as evil or a mother in this fandom. Some people in this fandom can't spare any nuance for the female characters. They'll blame Maddie for Buck's abandonment issues and issues in childhood, ignoring that she was a victim too, and then creates hundreds of Maddie Bashing fics. All female love interests are interpreted to be incredibly evil for simply just existing and their existence is "ruining the show." When people criticize the Buckley or the Diaz parents they tend to only blame the Margaret or Helena and say that Phillip and Ramon are just "going along with it" and again being treated as the victim of their wives instead of grown ass men with agency.

(and then of course if a woman isn't being perceived as "pure evil" she is being treated as only a mother/caregiver to the male characters which is what I see constantly with fandom descriptions of Maddie/Athena/Hen. If Hen is lucky she also gets to be seen as a gaydar and nothing more, forgetting all the really interesting aspects of all three of these female characters in order to cater them to men)

This fandom will bend over backwards to blame women sometimes and it drives me nuts