[ SECRET POST #4537 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4537 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

gotta be honest I don't understand why people are so knee-jerk over female characters who fall in love. I'm not saying that there isn't media that treats female LI like crap, but the fact that instead of taking those characters and making their stories better in fandom instead the answer is to just... discard them completely and idk it just weirds me out so much that a female-majority space does this so readily with female characters while latching onto any one-note male character without hesitation.

the answer isn't to ignore female characters completely, but to make BETTER stories with them.

[(Anonymous)]

Same. I totally get not liking romance stories where the romance itself is the main focus of the narrative, or non-romances where the romance ends up taking over the plot or the character's personality/motivations. But if the romance is just one part of the larger whole and the overall story is about a woman having adventures/saving the world/what have you who also happens to fall in love... what's so bad about that?

[type_wild]

The thing that's bad about it is the very, very widespread assumption that a woman's happy ending is marriage. Yes, you'll find this narrative with men too, for sure, but at a far less insidious level than it is with women, and certainly without all the historical and societal baggage. This is why I think "romance is just a larger part of the whole" is worse than pure romance stories - because in pure romance stories, I'm going into it with the understanding and the wish for the romance to happen. Token romances in non-romance stories are the constant nagging reminders that girls can't have happy endings without a a kiss.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm with you OP.
I'm a single heterosexual woman and get constant pressure from society to be in a relationship with a man. I also hear a lot of my single female friends freaking out because they are also not in a relationship with a man. Part of it, I believe is the fact that the media constantly portrays the idea that a woman's goal is to be with a man. (This of course leaves no space for anyone who isn't hetero also). I also want to see women just having adventures as men do, in movies!
Honestly, it's exhausting!!!

[(Anonymous)]

Correction. Marriage to a man. Lesbian and bi women are encouraged /not/ to marry... unless it's to a man.

[(Anonymous)]

YES. thank you.

[(Anonymous)]

+1000!