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faroes · 4 months ago

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beginning to actively mistrust anybody who doesn't post about or discuss female characters with the same level of investment as male ones.

there are definitely posts that explain what I'm saying better, but the amount of misogyny in pretty much every fandom space is genuinely exhausting. m/m is consistently most popular even when there are barely any men in the work. women are acknowledged by relationships first, demoted to male characters' sisters and mothers and daughters and annoyed lesbian best friends. most of what people manage to say about girls and women lacks depth, merely "omg i love her!" or "she's such a bitch."

and there is a lot of popular media where female characters are vastly outnumbered by male ones, so focusing on male characters may seem less insiduous, but... why are there only male characters to begin with? or better yet - why do so many people ONLY engage with media that centers men, or curate a fandom experience that centers men?

#personlig #i don't know how to fully verbalize this without writing an essay.#it's just... baffling to me. and i don't think being gay liberates you from misogyny.#in fact i don't think shipping two male characters is subversive enough to justify doing it to every media.#for all the discussion about lgbt representation and fandom as a vehicle for it...#there is so little celebration of anything but m/m. such lengthy analyses of men when equally interesting women are ignored.#and the surface level 'love' of women by calling them cool or perfect makes people feel comfortable in their disregard of them #because they think she's great or they background ship her with another woman so they're surely not ignoring her!#i don't know. it's pissing me off. i don't trust people who don't post about women independently or at all.#this isn't even a hot take it's been being said forever !

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