Hello, my name is Strong Female Character, and my secret power is reaffirming the heterosexuality of the disproportionately male cast.
Hello, my name is Slash Shippers, and my job is to dismiss female characters that might get in the way of my non-canon ship and then insist that what I’m doing is called activism.
Hello, my name is Common Sense, and I’m here to point out that neither of these problems would exist if we had more narratives featuring multiple queer and/or female characters; that straight women, while undeniably subject to restrictive and stereotyped portrayals, still get more mainstream and varied roles than queer anybody, such that dismissing queer fandom’s understandable desire for self-validation as sexist is really gross; that the aforementioned lack of female characters is doubly damning to those of us who want and need to see more queer ladies; and that it’s hypocritical to blame fandom for not having a higher opinion of lone, often poorly or inconsistently written female characters than their creators do, being as how our reception of those characters is dependent on their ability to make them three-dimensional in the first place, and especially not when so many fics still go out of their way to revive fridged women or give them better arcs than their source material ever did.
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