[ SECRET POST #2265 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2265 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah this is sort of a problem that female characters often share with minority and gay characters. With any group that is underrepresented or misrepresented all the characters gain the disadvantage of being judged by people on the criteria of, "is this character a good representation of our group?" rather than what we should be judging them by, "Is this a good character period?". It tends to result in people forcing their own views onto the characters in question and holding them up to a standard that mainstream characters are only rarely held to.

When a woman appears in a story there are people that will feel compelled to hold her as a spokesperson for women in media in general, and will ravenously demolish any perceived flaws as attacks on women or feminism as a whole. On the flipside, if a male character is hated its because he as an individual is flawed, no one says that a poor male character is misrepresenting males or making all men look bad.

Ultimately, this double standard means that minority characters are judged far too harshly, far too often, and ultimately held to a standard that is rooted more in an individual's views on social issues rather than the actual strengths or weaknesses of the character. This also confuses the hell out of producers, writers, and directors, because characters that would be perfectly acceptable as white males are torn to shreds under the scrutiny of being mouthpieces for gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation as anything else.

Even if we start getting more roles and more varied characters for women in media, it will still be at least partially up to the consumer to put aside these kinds of judgements and judge female characters on their own values rather than how they represent women as a whole.