tired.

Not to be that guy but I think even ppl who are self-proclaimed likers of female characters very often still view these women as statistics or as a box to be checked. Or at least those users are the loudest people in any given fandom tag. If you Like Women, you have to treat this fictional woman in ways deemed morally acceptable. Where a male character in her position would be tossed in the salad spinner without issue, you cannot do this with a woman. Because. I guess. It makes you weird? Women (fictional) still aren't allowed to suffer the way men do. They're too vulnerable, fragile, not strong of character enough to be someone's angst punching bag or be part of an awful ship, or whatever.

“But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?”