[ SECRET POST #3031 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3031 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I get that.

I didn't used to be like that when I was a kid. I enjoyed lots of books with female heroines. But the more I became aware of sexism the more uncomfortable I got with female characters. I can't help but see them all through a different lens now... if she's feminine, it's because she's conforming to expectations, if she's not, she's a faux Action girl stereotype blah blah blah. And it yanks me out of the story. Hell, there are even times where there's a really interesting and well-rounded female character who gets treated like crap by the narrative (see: Caska in Berserk) and then after a certain point she's ruined for me and I can't appreciate her anymore. I can't help but be more critical.

And there's definitely a few personality traits that will make me hate any female character: self-sacrificing, nurturing, and helpless (either always sick or doomed to a horrible fate or whatever), or one of those three makes me write her off immediately. It's knee-jerk and unfair, but I can't take that shit, and I'll never be able to relate to that shit.

I don't know. It's just so much less complicated with slash. I don't have to think about the politics of it all; it's just about the characters.