Women Are Awesome. Just fucking deal with it.
I've been around fandom long enough that I should be used to it. Or maybe I don't want to be used to it, because it's terrible and awful. Whatever. Most of my ships are slash pairings. Still, most of these characters are in relationship with/or are going to be with/or have been with women on the show.
And without fail, there are people in fandom that express their dislike of these lady characters with all the misogyny they can muster.
In the interest of full disclosure, I'm usually not keen on these relationships either. But I'm not interested in many relationships in shows, whether they involve my ships or not, because they are usually written terribly. More stuff needs to be like Peter/El because they're both adults and El exists without Peter.
I don't blame the lady characters. I blame the writers. Who don't know how to make a functional relationship at all. Or can't have a female character be a person and a girlfriend at the same time. It's awful.
Let's face it. I'd probably be just as annoyed at how they wrote any relationship. In any variation. I just so rarely have the opportunity for comparison. Because most of the shows I watch only have gay people on them when they're dead. Or killing people. Or, in the case of H50, not at all or in any way.
Still, I don't want to stumble upon people making it like women are gross for existing and getting in the way of their non-existent love ship.
I hate having to avoid episode discussions on communities because of all "ew women" comments. And I hate finding it in notes on fanfic on A03.
TL;DR: Women are awesome, stfu.
And that's enough for now. Maybe I'll come back and write about how much warning for a specific character bottoming annoys me.
And without fail, there are people in fandom that express their dislike of these lady characters with all the misogyny they can muster.
In the interest of full disclosure, I'm usually not keen on these relationships either. But I'm not interested in many relationships in shows, whether they involve my ships or not, because they are usually written terribly. More stuff needs to be like Peter/El because they're both adults and El exists without Peter.
I don't blame the lady characters. I blame the writers. Who don't know how to make a functional relationship at all. Or can't have a female character be a person and a girlfriend at the same time. It's awful.
Let's face it. I'd probably be just as annoyed at how they wrote any relationship. In any variation. I just so rarely have the opportunity for comparison. Because most of the shows I watch only have gay people on them when they're dead. Or killing people. Or, in the case of H50, not at all or in any way.
Still, I don't want to stumble upon people making it like women are gross for existing and getting in the way of their non-existent love ship.
I hate having to avoid episode discussions on communities because of all "ew women" comments. And I hate finding it in notes on fanfic on A03.
TL;DR: Women are awesome, stfu.
And that's enough for now. Maybe I'll come back and write about how much warning for a specific character bottoming annoys me.