Just something that happened recently in the Myth Of The Machine server as the update was happening, some of us need to be wary of the misogyny and hate that happens daily in the community towards the female characters, especially Shelly.
"GUYS. GUYS WE NEED TO KILL HER SHE IS 30. SHES 30. SHES 30. SHES 30. SHE IS 30."
"She is a whole 30 years old in not a life or death moment to me dude"
"ITS BAD. IM GONNA KILL THAT SHELL. I FUCKING HATE HER RN"
There's nothing I feel I need to point out here that I and two of my friends haven't already pointed out in the screenshots, but we need to pay closer attention to this issue in the community as a whole, I feel disappointed to see people treat the female characters this way simply because they are women or older than the main male characters.
oh my god i have to talk about this because yes i have some thoughts
I find it so hard to HAVE any female or female adjacent characters in any sort of story we have simply because of the internal biases that happen within others.
I'm glad that this is being pointed out as we haven't been oblivious to the obvious biases against our female characters SPECIFICALLY.
After the whole debacle with Jessica and Pomni being stars and people being mad we "replaced" felix with shelly (not true we just wrote a different story) we've been seeing far more of an issue regarding the treatment of the female cast.
Fly and I said at the very beginning over and over that the characters are going to do and say things that you don't like, and its up to you to form your own opinions about the characters, Yet these folks are right; NONE of them have been getting the same treatment as Shelly.
Yes she is 30, as Bendy is 29.
Yes she did violate bendy's personal space, as the cup brothers are HIRED HITMEN who have killed.
Yes she did put someone to sleep, as Mickey has put a cigar burn on felix's chest.
All of these characters are doing things that aren't good nor are we trying to portray them as good.
I'm not saying you HAVE to like Shelly, in fact as far as we've seen, she hasn't made a good impression on the others, but you have to at least admit that there is a PROMINENT issue of fans NOT EVEN LETTING HER HAVE A CHANCE to be a character before making an assumption.
There were already shelly haters before she even APPEARED. C'mon guys.
All in all, don't attack anyone for not liking a character, BUT!!! Don't turn a blind eye to the very clear biases that happen within fandom, because i've seen it, you've seen it, and it only harms others.
Lets all do better together gang!!
