non exhaustive list of fandom/media misogyny
only ever liking male relationships and calling a relationship with a women in it 'het slop'
'she's just not that interesting compared to [insert male character]'
only talking about female characters in a shipping context
treating a female character as an accessory or self-insert next to the male character
calling a female character toxic or bitchy for the same things that a male character gets coddled for
'if you want more fic/art/content about female characters/wlw ships make it yourself'
yuri but it's only genderbent yaoi
saying a female character 'deserves better' and then sidelining her completely
claiming that favouring yaoi is 'escaping misogyny'
a complex female character being used in fics solely as a yaoi cheerleader
female character's mental health gets ignored in favour of a male character's development
female character being reduced to a mom or sister character when they aren't related to x character at all
'her character was so underdeveloped' but then their fav is a man with much less screentime
'fandom isn't activism'
the tag about a female character being 80% shipping content
complex female character being called bitchy while an equally complex male character is adored and coddled
killing a female character off in fic
not listening when women in fandom point out something about the source material being sexist
calling a female character overrated
male character's sexism being excused because 'he didn't know any better/he's mentally ill/he didn't mean it in that way'
giving a male character/mlm ship the same traits that an existing female character already has; while not engaging with that character at all
female character in a straight ship being written ooc because the author only wrote the fic because of the male character
'mean lesbian' trope
'stop dictating how people should play with characters'
'it's not that deep'
canon sapphic ship has about 10% of the fic compared to the non-canon yaoi ship
calling women in fandom hysterical for being upset at how the source material treated a female character
feel free to add more. most of this i added myself but this site helped, and so did this post by @susandsnell

















