I think OP, in the comment you're replying to, showed an example of what some people mentioned here: hold female characters to higher standards than the male ones. Too much nitpicking here. Compared to the other secondary characters, Uhura is far better. Even in the EU (expanded universe e.g., the comics) she's more developed than the guys. Zoe Saldana is one of the top billed but this doesn't make her the protagonist at the level of Kirk and Spock. This is very stupid, miss Saldana is the most popular actress of them all because she's in 3 big franchises of course she's among the top billed. But she isn't more a protagonist than McCoy and I dare you to tell me that McCoy gets his own storyline and character development that isn't being the best friend of the main character.
Another big problem in that argument is the lack of intersectional feminism: you can't ignore that Uhura is a black woman who wasn't allowed to be a love interest in the original series because of fucking racism. Her character wasn't a love interest but she also wasn't developed at all, even though they had 3 seasons and 6 movies to give her more to do. For black girls, having characters that are love interests isn't a bad stereotype or trope because, for them, the opposite is the trope. So it's very problematic for white feminists to want to push on women of color standards and stereotypes that aren't really valid for them too. In short, people like OP are saying that WOC should still not be allowed to have loving relationships and acknowledged as attractive ladies ONLY because white girls are reduced to that all the time and white girls are sick of it. Woc see that as dehumanizing though. For them presentation is not 'strong independent woman who doesn't need no man' because they're always that and in their case that had always been an excuse to not acknowledge them as human beings that deserve love, care and protection like white women.
I get that OP doesn't like characters that she can't relate to but there is a difference between not being able to relate to a character because you don't share their choices (e.g., seek love) or sexual orientation (or race, religion) and saying that just because you don't like something then it must be universally wrong and deserving hate by default. Or that other women have to relate to the same things you relate to.
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I think OP, in the comment you're replying to, showed an example of what some people mentioned here: hold female characters to higher standards than the male ones. Too much nitpicking here.
Compared to the other secondary characters, Uhura is far better. Even in the EU (expanded universe e.g., the comics) she's more developed than the guys.
Zoe Saldana is one of the top billed but this doesn't make her the protagonist at the level of Kirk and Spock. This is very stupid, miss Saldana is the most popular actress of them all because she's in 3 big franchises of course she's among the top billed. But she isn't more a protagonist than McCoy and I dare you to tell me that McCoy gets his own storyline and character development that isn't being the best friend of the main character.
Another big problem in that argument is the lack of intersectional feminism: you can't ignore that Uhura is a black woman who wasn't allowed to be a love interest in the original series because of fucking racism. Her character wasn't a love interest but she also wasn't developed at all, even though they had 3 seasons and 6 movies to give her more to do. For black girls, having characters that are love interests isn't a bad stereotype or trope because, for them, the opposite is the trope. So it's very problematic for white feminists to want to push on women of color standards and stereotypes that aren't really valid for them too. In short, people like OP are saying that WOC should still not be allowed to have loving relationships and acknowledged as attractive ladies ONLY because white girls are reduced to that all the time and white girls are sick of it.
Woc see that as dehumanizing though. For them presentation is not 'strong independent woman who doesn't need no man' because they're always that and in their case that had always been an excuse to not acknowledge them as human beings that deserve love, care and protection like white women.
I get that OP doesn't like characters that she can't relate to but there is a difference between not being able to relate to a character because you don't share their choices (e.g., seek love) or sexual orientation (or race, religion) and saying that just because you don't like something then it must be universally wrong and deserving hate by default. Or that other women have to relate to the same things you relate to.