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Iris West-Allen:

Fandom calls her a bitch and annoying for daring to challenge Barry and to be his love interest while being a black woman.

She is sweet but doesn't take shit from her father or love interest and she is a great journalist and a terrible cook (iconic).

Honestly I am overwhelmed thinking about it. To start, the CW didn't even try to protect Candice Patton from online harassment and threats, to the point that she almost left after season 2 it had gotten so bad. Literally every single time Iris challenged any other character on anything fandom called her manipulative, or a bitch, or controlling, or accused her of gaslighting. When she had to make hard decisions, she was called cold/emotionless by some and somehow too angry/mean at the same time (hmm, I wonder why that is). She was accused of "weaponizing" her personal relationships to get what she wanted regardless of the actual circumstances. And to top it all off, the creators and many of the writers were white men who clearly did not get that Iris wouldn't just be getting pushback for being a woman. Way too many times the fact that she was a Black woman navigating her circumstances was completely ignored (e.g. another characters comments towards her came off as racist, not only sexist, and that should have been acknowledged). I gave up on the show entirely after a point, so I am not sure if the writing got better wrt Iris but maybe someone else knows.

IF IRIS WEST ALLEN DOESNT WIN THIS WHOLE GOD DAMN TOURNAMENT. To this DAY there is a LARGE section of the fandom that violently wants her dead. they claim she single handedly ruined the show and ignore the terrible writing around… Quite literally all of it. If the show is so much as MENTIONED. ANYWHERE. you’ll get a swarm of people going “wE aRe tHE fLaSH” even if IRIS ISNT MENTIONED AT ALL. Her character got hate the SECOND Candice Patton was casted; with people claiming Barry (the white mc) “looked better” with Caitlin (a white woman); and I’m mentioning this because I don’t think you can divorce the misogyny leveled at Iris from the racism she’s subjected to. It’s misogynoir. But that said— the fucking fandom’s always just CLAMBERING for reasons to hate her. She’s annoying, she’s a bitch, she shouldn’t have rejected Barry, ‘actually it’s good that the men in her life didn’t tell her important information that (lethally btw) affects her life because she’s RECKLESS and would just throw herself into danger if she knew everything!’ <- same people often claim not to be misogynistic btw. Also their evidence is always a single time in season 2 that she got in a dangeorus situation (while working as an investigative journalist) and called Barry to get her out of it. SHE WAS DOING HER JOB! THE ABILITY TO CONTACT BARRY PROTECTED HER; AND GAVE HER THE TOOLS TO PROTECT HERSELF‚ REALLY. those mfs just want her dead or sidelined. Cause ohhhhhh that’s when they start to hate her even more. In season 4, not only does she not die (in S3) like they wanted her to; she’s given AGENCY and the ability to cement her place in Team Flash. She doesn’t get forced into the role of a love interest. She’s an active character and she helps with superhero and non-superhero stuff. And you know what, by all definitions she is a full-on hero. Because her ideas saved the day MULTIPLE times that season alone (Enter Flashtime‚ anyone? did you mfs want Central City blown up by a nuke?). In fact; Iris saved the entire world in the end of season 4 with her belief in Marlize Devoe. And then later on? Saves the ENTIRE MULTIVERSE by almost single-handedly convincing Ryan Choi to help them in Crisis On Infinite Earths. ALSO almost everything people hate on her for… is just blatantly incorrect. iykyk; there’s MANY examples. so Iris is a case where I will wholeheartedly say: FREE MY GIRL SHE DID NOTHING WRONG! I could go on! And I’m sure others will. The Iris West Allen fanclub doubles as a defense club. Because Iris West-Allen is kind‚ intelligent‚ passionate and compassionate‚ beautiful‚ brave (remember when she jumped off a fucking building to save her husband?), sometimes a little too selfless… She doesn’t take shit but she is INCREDIBLY forgiving at the same time. She built a media empire from the ground up and won a fucking pulitzer. She has an amazing fashion sense and on a CW SHOW! She has an unwavering belief in people and humanity (THAT HAS SAVED THE WORLD/UNIVERSE AT LEAST THRICE AS PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED). She has been through SO. FUCKING. MUCH it’s actually unfair— but! In the end she got the happy ending she deserved with her husband and friends; and will continue to kick ass with her literal media empire. Her treatment in the show was more than questionable at times, and her treatement by the fandom FAR moreso; but she got her fucking happy ending at least. and I’m happy for her for that. Vote Iris West-Allen! Because she deserved and DESERVES SO MUCH BETTER FROM THIS FANDOM.

Malia Tate:

Fandom hates on her for being Stiles's love interest. I have seen fans argue that she is "mentally a child" because she was a coyote for many years (she is a werecoyote), or, alternatively, that she is a predator for dating Stiles because she is "45 in coyote years."

Malia is very loyal and sharp-witted and thinks she should be allowed to kill people which of course she should.

Help, not the coyote years.💀 Also, it's funny that they were reaching to find an excuse to call Malia a predator when Stiles' most popular ship was with Derek, who was an adult when Stiles was still in high school.