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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-02-09 04:55 pm

[ SECRET POST #2959 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2959 ⌋

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[personal profile] masu_trout 2015-02-09 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I agree with this; I love the sort of friendly-ish 'Character vs. Character' fan showdowns that similar characters seem to get, whether the character being compared are male or female.

It's when it becomes 'I like Character X better than Character Y, and therefore Character Y is worthless/Character Y doesn't deserve screentime/you're wrong for being interested in Character Y that I get frustrated, and that does seem to happen more with female character than male.

(Not that it never happens with male characters, of course, but there seems this perception that female characters are automatically in competition with each other just by existing, even if they're from entirely different genres/networks/mediums/time periods. I think sometimes there's this weird underlying assumption that you can only be invested in so many women at a time, and those comparisons are based on getting you invested in their favorite by tearing down the perceived 'worse options' rather than talking positively about the female characters they like.)