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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-03-16 03:16 pm

[ SECRET POST #2265 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2265 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2013-03-17 10:33 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you for saying that.
I used to be in Transformers fandom (a place filled with a special brand of misogyny since "robots don't need more than one gender: they're ROBOTS").

A lot of fans, even a lot of female ones, want the female-coded characters to stop existing. They're even popular authors who have managed to make their no-females-allowed canons extremely popular and beloved, since it's "so logical to have no female-coded robots".

But the funny thing was/is: whenever there /was/ a female-coded robot (not all canons lack fembots) she was/is criticized into the ground.
"She is too sexy, she is a mary sue, she is too femme, she is too smart, she is too cool, she is too good, she is too bad,she is too strong, bla BLA B L A" while completely one-dimensional male-coded characters were clebrated and loved just because they were "sexy" or "fuelling my fetish for XY so harrrd".

So whenever I brought this hypocricy up I was accused of "sexism" (lol) or people told me I should be thankful that some canons even /had/ a token female and stop "bitching" since female robots were "illogical" anyways ;)

It's not a surprise I quit fandom and went back to enjoying my robots for myself again.