[ SECRET POST #2842 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2842 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I get so confused whenever I read something like this, because a lot of these characters seem fine to me? They're just... people? Idk, it's unsettling to be told that you're just not seeing fatal flaws in things.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it goes back to what several commenters noted yesterday - female characters tend to be held to a much higher standard than male ones.

[anonymous4]

That's exactly how I feel, too.

Also, is it really surprising if a straight woman finds the male characters more interesting than the female, regardless of how they're written?

[sarillia]

That argument is so weird to me because it never seems to go the other way. Straight men are expected to be interested in male characters because they relate to them and straight women are constantly saying that they're more interested in male characters because they're straight. There's always some "logical reason" for liking male characters more than female ones but those reasons aren't consistent.

I don't see the need for these justifications anyway. Like who you like. If you're the introspective type then have fun examining why you may have your preferences, but I think there are better things to spend time and energy on than trying to force people who don't habitually do that sort of thing to examine their preferences. The corollary is that I think people who don't want to do that kind of introspection spend way too much time defending themselves. If you don't care then why not just ignore the speculation and leave it to the people who are interested?

[likeadeuce]

+1

[anonymous4]

I'm not really sure what you mean by your second paragraph... I was speaking from my own experience. I actually find myself less interested in female characters until I come to write them because a story demands it, then I find myself 'inhabiting' them in a way I don't inhabit the males -- so it's a different kind of interest I suppose: attraction to the males and identification with the females. I seem to be very limited by my own sexuality.

I also come from a family in which the men -- my late father, my brothers -- have always been more interested in the female characters than the male, and watched films/TV programs for the female characters.