“This story is so gay!”
“Is it gay or is it misogynistic?”
They don’t understand.
I explain that often times women and girls are excluded from stories in favor of a predominantly male cast because the author doesn’t value female narrative contributions nor considers them worthy of character development in their own rights independent of the men, so the result isn’t uplifting male relationships with romantic intentions, but simply sexist writing in its most basic form.
They assure me it’s a good story.
Look inside.
It’s misogynistic.
i tried pointing this out about Lord of the Rings a while back and people acted like i’d told them the sky is green
The only contrasting argument I can make is that nearly every woman in LOTR is some kind of god-princess better than every man around them. But holy shit LOTR is misogynistic.
the closer a character is to godhood, the further they are from personhood.
