*Re did my Black Christmas Edit cos it needed a bit more umphhhh* lol

Me, a woke Desi: actually there were a lot of queens, merchants and warriors in Desi history, like-

Idiot ppl: OMG ur one of feminazis, aren't u??

Me: It's feminists and as I was saying, there are a lot of badasses in history like,

Jhansi ki Rani aka Rani Lakshmi Bai led a rebellion against the British raj

Umayamma Rani, queen of Kerala, made the first open revolt against British, established a women's medical College in Kerala, worked against caste system

The story Kannagi, lady from the Chola n Pandiya kingdom times.

Rani Velu Nachiyar, known by Tamils as Veeramangai("brave woman"), first Indian queen to wage war against British.

Nur Jahan's administrative skills proved greatly valuble during her period of reign as she defended the Empire's borders in her husband's absence and navigated family feuds, rebel uprisings. She attended the court whether Janahgir was there or not.

Bharatiyar a 19th century feminist poet.

AND THERE ARE SO MANY MORE

So what did we learn here u mysoginistic piece of gobar

FEMINISM EXSISTED BEFORE UR FORE-FATHERS WERE BORN U UNEDUCATED OFFSPRING OF A DEMON!!

And while someone else probably has brought this up before me, I felt like talking about it.

There's something I noticed in stories, fanfiction or not, that caught my curiosity.

Why is it always a gay male competing against a female for a male?

Honestly, there's always that one story where there's this guy whose crushing on another guy, but that guy has like a really mean bully girl/friend that becomes the mc's rival?

It seems awfully stereotypical, to me, and there's always been this thing in which people feminize gay males, or make it look like they hate women completely just because they're gay.

People, you don't have to be attracted to someone to be their friend or respect them. That's common sense.

It also makes it seem as if gay males just want to "replace" females, and that's a harmful stereotype.

It's also become problematic in fandoms, especially in MLM ships.

Guys. Targetting and hating the canon female love interest doesn't help your ship in any way. Just makes people hate you and the ship as well.

For example, I ship TodoDeku/TodoIzu, Todoroki and Midoriya from My Hero Academia. However, I don't hate Ochako just because she canonically has a crush on Midoriya. Why? Because she's a genuinely good character, and has nothing to do with the fact that I ship Midoriya with someone else. I don't like when people hate on her just for the fact they feel as if they need to antagonize someone in order to validate their ship.

I love the friendship that Uraraka and Midoriya has. Even if I don't see their relationship in a romantic sense, I still appreciate their closeness and friendship. I respect the people who ship them, because everyone has their own ship, and that's perfectly fine.

Writers, especially fanfic writers, don't demonize women just so you can get two male characters together.

Not only it's stereotypical to gay men, it's also misogynistic towards women.