#this is also why Strong Female Character type fantasy books are a plague on society if they're not aware of the tropes

[infinitelystrangemachinex]

if a writer insists that the best written female characters in existence are stoic and for all intents and purposes could be replaced by a male doppelganger without changing anything material about the story, ie """androgynous""" roles that just so happen to be played by a girl/woman, then that writer will face the same criticisms over and over forever that they only know how to write at most 2 women, and will ultimately never be someone who can write a variety of characters from a place of originality or honesty

and any reader who insists the same will forever feel threatened or disgusted by any characters who don't fit or don't reassure their expectations of gender-essentialism