WSM characters also get more love, but those two things are not mutually exclusive).
This is a really good point! I think a lot of people who disagree with OP are under the impression that the love a character gets cancels out the hate, but it doesn't. They're two separate things. A character can be loved more than they deserve and hated more than they deserve at the same time. And I think a lot of white male characters are both loved and hated more than they deserve.
Also, what you said about more popular characters feeling more hated because there are more people to potentially hate them is so true it hurts. Most times whenyou have a thousand people bashing something it's going to feel unfairly excessive, even if that's a thousand people out of fifty thousand. It's just a weird aspect of how criticism works imo.
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This is a really good point! I think a lot of people who disagree with OP are under the impression that the love a character gets cancels out the hate, but it doesn't. They're two separate things. A character can be loved more than they deserve and hated more than they deserve at the same time. And I think a lot of white male characters are both loved and hated more than they deserve.
Also, what you said about more popular characters feeling more hated because there are more people to potentially hate them is so true it hurts. Most times whenyou have a thousand people bashing something it's going to feel unfairly excessive, even if that's a thousand people out of fifty thousand. It's just a weird aspect of how criticism works imo.