im realizing very fast that people do not in fact know that sometimes things in stories suck on purpose and it sucking is the point
"this story is misogynistic!!"
>looks inside
>about the pressures of societal misogyny and how its bad
even if the story is genuinely bigoted, i really recommend trying to have a conversation with it anyways?
recently I've been digging into a very deeply and frankly insultingly misogynistic series, which, against all odds, has created this really compelling female character whose story it can't figure out how to tell. the character's personality and backstory DEMAND that she be at the helm of her own story, and so there's a weird tug-of-war happening between the writer's storytelling instincts and his internalized misogyny.



















