"why do you defend female characters over the same things you hate male characters for" because fandom is disproportionately interested in the motivations and actions of men over women and will do literally everything in their power to justify their faves while treating female characters like one dimensional cutouts who exist to serve men's narratives. because you are predisposed to find any and all "unladylike" behaviors in female characters as unlikeable and you make up excuses to rationalize it rather than examine the biases you've imposed on your media consumption. because sometimes i think it's actually far more interesting when a woman breaks the mold in an unpleasant way but the same doesn't actually apply to men because that's the status quo in fiction and why should i feel compelled to give a fuck about them when there's like 100000000 of you doing that for me. because almost every single time i see an essay about how deep and complex a morally questionable character is it is literally always every single time without fail the exact same 20-30 something year old guy that looks like his name is kyle and i'm bored of it.
"that's a double standard─" it sure is! die mad about it.
