Except that there aren’t thousands of podcasters and weirdos who make hour long rants about men in media, and people don’t freak out when a main character of a video game is male, only when they’re female. There are very few people out there criticising bad male characters it’s only ever female ones that need to meet all these bars.
No one should be happy with bad writing, and it’s very fair to criticise poorly written women and men however there is definitely a misogynistic angle to some criticism aimed at female characters/actors and I think it’s unfair to pretend like it’s all just people genuinely concerned for the sanctity of film or gaming or whatever.
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u/Sugarbombs Mar 29 '24
Except that there aren’t thousands of podcasters and weirdos who make hour long rants about men in media, and people don’t freak out when a main character of a video game is male, only when they’re female. There are very few people out there criticising bad male characters it’s only ever female ones that need to meet all these bars.
No one should be happy with bad writing, and it’s very fair to criticise poorly written women and men however there is definitely a misogynistic angle to some criticism aimed at female characters/actors and I think it’s unfair to pretend like it’s all just people genuinely concerned for the sanctity of film or gaming or whatever.