[ SECRET POST #6960 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6960 ⌋

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Hating how a female character was treated in the writing is not the same thing as hating a female character. There are lots of female characters that I like just fine as characters, what I hate is how the writing reduced them to nothing but The Love Interest or sidelined their character arc in favor of a male character.

It drives me crazy how many people can't seem to tell the difference between the two things.

[(Anonymous)]

100% agree, and when people who actually love and enjoy female characters complain about that trend, I join right in.

It's just that, generally speaking, most of the people who whine about 'bad writing' for female characters are doing it as a three-word footnote to their fifteenth epic-length post of the day drooling over the exact same male characters who turned them into a love interest in the first place.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree. I don't think I'm with it enough right now to write this coherently, but I'm going to try. Critiquing a female character is not always misogyny. With fiction, you can ask for the WHY behind things. Like WHY is a character written this way? WHY does she behave like this? WHY was she made to be a cardboard cutout love interest for a male main character? WHY doesn't she have any aspirations or ambitions beyond that?

[(Anonymous)]

It makes me so mad when I see a character with so much potential but they reduce her to what feels like a side character even if she's part of the main cast.

[(Anonymous)]

I will forever be angry about Cheria from Tales of Graces for this. They set up a fantastic character arc for her (having her move on and pursue her own dreams and make a life for herself instead of pining over Asbel to come back) only to undo it all by having her change her mind and decide she was actually still in love with him despite having every reason to be angry at him (and she WAS angry at him at first, as she should have been!). It made me so mad. They could have done so much with her but no, relegated to the love interest role.

[(Anonymous)]

Amen! There are female characters I might not *care* about because they were *never* written well, but there are also female characters I love despite the bad writing-- either because they're the combined product of an actress and a writers' room and multiple directors and so for everyone who fumbles the ball there's someone else bringing them to life, or just because they started out promising before the writer fucked it up.

There are also female characters I don't like at all but can appreciate when they're written well vs when the ball is being dropped, and of course the female characters I hate *because* they're written well and I WANT those well-rounded and detestable-on-their-own-merits female villains... but the same incapable-of-nuance crowd gets upset if you say you hate a female villain whose role is to be hated because that must be *misogyny* and not... a sign that the story is effective? Like, maybe I don't WANT to say 'yass queen, I support women's wrongs' every time there's a female villain, it feels so performative and condescending.