[ SECRET POST #2787 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2787 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah I agree. There's great female characters but they're a lot rarer than the guys.

I honestly don't understand why straight men don't complain about it more. I can't like a male character (no matter how good-looking I find him to be) if I find him poorly developed. *cough* Legolas *cough* Conversely, I've actually found myself finding certain actors hot once I was interested in their characters (…Leonard Nimoy).

[(Anonymous)]

There's many reasons. I think straight men tend not to approach fiction in that way, for one thing - I think a lot of guys are, if not satisfied, at least not willing to protest over having characters who are just eyecandy. I think there's also a certain lack of the... emotional vocabulary and tools to notice these things and talk about them. Not to say MEN DON'T HAVE FEELINGS, but noticing that specific way of relating to fiction and pointing out its existence isn't something you can actually take for granted.

And then, in certain circles, there's maybe a desire to avoid even the appearance of suggesting that men have problems in culture that women don't. That it's unfeminist or at least in bad taste. Which is, straight up, the reason that I didn't frame my original statement around the fact that I'm a straight guy. It just seems a little gauche to talk about something that's an issue of female representation in terms of characters to get all hot and bothered about. I don't think it's actually wrong, as long as you're capable of maintaining the distinction between those two things and recognizing that representation as a social problem is approximately a million times more serious, but it's something that I do think about.