[ SECRET POST #3308 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3308 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Plus, more often than not, the dude's general manchildishness is portrayed as being charming and roguish and irresistible. It's not that he has to grow up; it's that everybody else has to learn to relax and accept his methods! His manchildishness is an inherent part of his genuis and his charm!

Whereas when a female character is a childish brat, she usually is brought to see the error of her ways and realizes how important it is that she change for the better.

It doesn't help that the most writers seem to be really terrible at writing "roguish, charmingly abrasive" female characters. They can turn out a thousand charmingly abrasive male characters, but as soon as you change the pronoun, it's like, "Wait...but how can her abrasiveness possibly be charming? How do you expect me to write those things as coexisting in the same character?! How am I supposed to balance that?!!"

[(Anonymous)]

Yep, this. The childish female brat is expected to grow up and mature as part of her character development. The manchild character rarely experiences that development arc to the same extent. They might exhibit some gained maturity, but they still retain many of the same roguish, eccentric qualities... and that's seen as a positive outcome. It's not an obstacle to career success OR romance, either.