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⌈ Secret Post #6461 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't get it either anon, I've always preferred reading about women than men because I am a woman and thus like to see stories about women doing cool things, be that fighting bad guys or succeeding at her job/life/getting the love-interest she's into. Reading about guys can be fun too but I am so much more likely to read a book or watch a show if a woman is the main character, always have done. If anything the only reason I used to read more fantasy books with male protags is because that was the majority for a long time. Now not so much and I love that.

[(Anonymous)]

For me, it's just... fiction and not about me. Female characters aren't me nor reflect me, so I don't feel a need to insert on or distance myself because *gasp* that's a woman like me. Even if they're similar to me. It's a very weird and immature way to approach fiction IMO, I get "it hits too close to home" when it comes to not wanting to see abuse or misogyny, but geez.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh for sure, I don't project myself onto female characters either I just like consuming stories about them because I just think ladies are fun. I'm also gay so yanno, pretty women doing cool things is appealing for obvious reasons. xD

But even then it's not all about hotness or whatever, I like characters that are entertaining and the gender of one is not going to put a hard limit on that because it seems really reductive and limiting of my options?

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I have plenty if male faves too, I'd say my ratio of characters I like platonically is equal. My original works skew more towards female characters but I make the guys interesting abd important too. Fiction has different possibilities for all kinds of people to read about. Hotness is a different story since I have a very specific type, heh, but this isn't about who I'd smooch.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah I'd say that it tends to be archetypes that I have preferences for, and sometimes they're different between men and women simply because you're not likely to see certain ones. Like I really quite like soft and gentle male characters because so many are hyper-macho, and I also love outspoken take-no-shit women because of how socially we're expected to be more submissive and soft-spoken than guys. But even then that doesn't mean I don't ever like gentle and quiet female characters because I do! It's all about variety which is what I like most of all.

I guess I also just don't slap the responsibility of representing all women everywhere(or queer people/people of color onto their respective characters) onto every female character, because that's hugely unfair tbh and will never be met.

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DA
I often feel disconnected af reading/watching about women. Their experiences, their expectations are absolutely foreign to me. And I think that I have to connect because I am A Woman (tm) but I just fucking don't. And that frustrates me.
Yes, I have favorite female characters, I enjoy female-dominated stories actually. Because I don't need to constantly project to enjoy something. But in fanfiction I scratch absoluty different itch and I prefer m/m most of the time.