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Mae-ho Aniseya:

Star wars fans hate black women

i was around that fandom at the time the show was airing and it was VILE from all sides. media, irl, tumblr, even people supposedly "defending" her were doing it in the worst most backhandedly racist ways ive ever seen

also,, like despite this being a story about her sister and her, she STILL GETS SIDELINED FOR HER SISTERS Dark ROMANCE. like the narratove treats her soo badly

Taissa Turner:

taissa is not necessarily hated but more ignored. as the only Black main character, she tends to get way less attention than the others. if she does get attention, it's mostly about her relationship with her (white) girlfriend van without any serious exploration of her character. though there are some works including her on ao3, it's mostly her and her gf being a background couple without any further thought to it. if you look through the top posts on the yellowjackets fanart tag, it takes forever until sth about her pops up (mostly her and her gf again). i actually really like her relationship, but it feels like people only care about taissa in that setting. and again, she is a main character with tons of interesting scenes and a lot of complexity that rarely gets discussed. she also has a lot of very interesting dynamics with the other characters and even though the yellowjackets fandom is big on multishipping (and shipping in general) taissa is rarely included in that. she and her canon gf also get way less attention than many of the other pairings (even though they are THE canon lesbians of the show). later on taissa has a wife who is Black btw and pretty much completely ignored by the fandom.. the show is definitely partly to blame for that, since her wife kinda falls into the disposable Black gf trope and the writers generally fumbled tai's story in parts. however, she's still a very intriguing character and other characters with potentially worse writing still get a lot of love. (there are also some instances of her being described as bitchy, too mean or egocentrical when that's literally not true at all. but i can't speak to much on that bc i prefer not to engage with this and i also think it's not a major part of the fandom that sees her that way.)

tai is the heart of the show!! she takes initiative, she moves the plot forward and she gets the job done (the giver was literally written about her… like she is doing the shit the other characters don't want to do, she's a literal self described handy lesbian!! also imo a character that truely understands the relevance of community, always sticking up for others when necessary regardless of sympathy etc) she cares so deeply about the people around her and goes to great lengths to support them some examples: 1. offered to give another character an abortion, so she doesn't have to do it on her own (mind you, they weren't even close or anything atp) 2. lead a mission to get rescue to get her help (they're stranded in the wilderness) for which she literally risked her own life 3. supported said character through the entirety of an incredibly traumatic birth 4. paid for another characters rehab several times without telling anyone or expecting anything in return 5. killed a wolf for her gf 6. joined a cult for her gf yellowjackets is also a show that heavily plays with the question of "is the supernatural real or is there are psychological explanation for all that?" and tai is one of two characters who are really at the center of this question due to her having some form of alternate personality which is super interesting imo like this other personality stems from her being deeply repressed and never allowing herself to be truely seen. she constantly puts on a mask and she kinda doesn't deal with her problems at all. like she's carrying complex religious trauma from her childhood into her adulthood plus all the surival horror trauma she never deals with… idk i love her so much, i think she's deeply interesting and i wish people would talk about her more

Mabel Pines:

People act like she's the most selfish person on Earth for being 12 years old, squabbling with her brother and wanting things sometimes. You cannot see someone defend her without inevitably having people argue that "ACTUALLY in this moment she's actually being terrible and it justifies my hatred for her", or "yeah she's a kid but she's still really annoying and I always hate her parts of the episodes" and so on.

She is one of the kindest, most whimsical characters ever while also having the nuances of being written like a real kid and all that entails, be it flaws or qualities. She is the light of the show, the one every other character turns to for hope and laughter, and she deserves the world.

Fandom was so nasty to her for no reason??? Well I know the reason. It’s cause she was a girl who made one (1) mistake

SHES LITERALLT 12. ACTUALLY A 12 YEAR OLD. GUYS YOURE BEEFING WITH A FICTIONAL 12 YO. SHE’S SO SWEET AND KIND AND YOU CAN TELL SHE LOVES HER FAMILY SO MUCH, SHE’S TRYING, SHE’S AFRAID OF GROWING UP AND CHANGING AND HER FAMILY AND FRIENDS LEAVING HER BEHIND. THERE ARE SO MANY LAYERS TO HOW SHE ACTS but noooooooo because she’s selfish sometimes clearly she deserves to explode i guess. A tween girl btw. Did I mention that

Demonized her for inadvertently causing the start of Weirdmageddon and hated her for being a quirky 12 year old. Weirdmageddon was orchestrated by an incredibly manipulative being from another world had been working for DECADES to create the circumstances necessary to come to our world. If Mable hadn't been in a vulnerable state and in posession of the rift snowglobe, someone eventually would have been, and Bill would have just lied to them instead. This isn't a grand personal action of selfishness that Mable took she was literally just a 12 year old having a horrible day in the presence of Manipulation Guy 3000 😭

That is a 12 year old girl. Sooo many fans have blamed her for being the reason why Bill was even able to attempt to take over the world completely ignoring the fact that her grunkle Ford was the one who first made the portal and gave Bill 'proper' access to their world. Time and time again over the series she is shown to be incredibly capable and even if she isn't book smart like Dipper is she is most certainly the "street smart" twin. She's also incredibly outgoing and constantly developing new relationships and not letting poor experiences deter her. Mabel also is so crafty! She is constantly creating things and when she wants something done, she'll do it. I love that girl so much and she has received so much undeserved hate from the fandom, especially at the time when the show was originally airing.

If I had a nickel for every animated 12-year-old girl who teamed up with friends and enemies alike to save the world from an apocalyptic threat who had personal beef with an older male relative of hers… only to receive an absurd amount of hate from her fandom for the crime of being a 12-year-old girl… I would have 2 nickels!!

Sansa Stark:

Perpetually a victim of the plot, denied agency, hated for being whiny, PLUS the whole deal where they changed the plot of the book so they could show her being raped in the show…

Sansa is an incredible character for the exact reasons I hated her ass when I was 14. She's often passive, conforms to expectations, and lashes out at her younger sister for being the opposite. Her arc finds her struggling to navigate a dangerous, violent world that hates women using only the tools she was taught as a girl would keep her safe and make her successful (her passivity, her virginity, her femininity, etc.).

Bashed as the worst and most useless character of the whole series for not immediately killing all the Lannisters ig despite literally watching her father’s head get cut off at thirteen years old. Also catches flak for thinking mean things about the fandom’s chosen son Jon Snow and her sister Arya Stark, but like. This is a middle schooler.

The WHOLE POINT of her character is to illustrate how the game of thrones corrupts innocence, ERGO the character HAS to start from an innocent place. Obviously she’s naive at the start of the series, why would any child raised in a loving household far away from court politics develop any political acumen? But despite this, she does learn quickly, and her character development is among the most exciting in the show (and I’m sure it will eventually be in the series as well)

I could write a dissertation on this one but if you say Sansa is worse that Joffrey you’re a misogynist. In my opinion people hate her because her abuse arc is painfully grounded in reality.

The very first man to use her as a pawn was her father and yet the fandom blames her for this. Sansa’s arc was supposed to be a mirror of her sister’s to show that if they comply (Sansa) if they rebel (Arya) no girls win in a patriarchal society but so many people would rather hate a fictional little girl because she didn’t girl boss her way out of oppression.

According to Sophie Turner (the actress who played Sansa), people hated Sansa so much that they would actually go up to Turner in real life and go "i don't like you" (and Turner would have been in like... her teens/early twenties at this point)

I really need fans to not need her to marry a creepy old pervert to prove that she isn’t vain and put her in her place. She’s twelve. Also these creepy men like her because she’s pretty. It’s also not her job to fix their defective personalities.

George R.R. Martin wrote a really complex world with layers of story and metaphors. He has something to say about climate change and nuclear weapons, these metaphors are obvious. Then he challenges us to look at government, power structures, patriarchal systems, concepts of honor vs what’s actually right, gender roles, and how to meaningfully change all of these things. Then to have people take away nothing other than the book is about a feud between to little girls, Sansa is the villain, and the story will be about defeating her. Sansa and Arya love each other. One conforms, one rebels, neither can win in a patriarchal society. Their arc is why this society is bad for all girls but so many fans willfully miss it because of their own misogyny.

Everyone loved the idea of a free and independent North under Robb or even Jon but they seem really agitated that Sansa was the one who saw it through. They are angry at her when she’s meek and even angrier when she exercises her agency to give her homeland something they seem pretty unified in wanting.

Ned was the very first man to use Sansa. He used her as a cover while investigating the Lannister’s without any sort of regard for how dangerous that is. Yet fans blame Sansa, an eleven year old girl for killing Ned. Girl argued like a lawyer on his behalf, the milk of the poppy defense was great and Ned was ready to through it away because honor. What’s sad is I don’t think that Sansa herself is able to process how much her male family members fail her because it’s too much to handle. People also expect Sansa a kid to stand up to Joffrey at the Trident when Ned a grown adult won’t stand up to Robert. The saddest thing is that I believe if Joffrey wasn’t a bastard Ned would have married Sansa to him. He would have felt bad about it but he would have upheld the system. Fans would naturally see this as Sansa’s character flaw and proof that Ned is good because he feels bad.