We love the women that fandom hates.
Join us here in celebrating female characters who come in for more than their share of fannish vitriol. (You don't have to like them all, but can we please not call them bitches, sluts and whores or wish sexualised violence upon them?)
There's also an LJ comm: http://womenlovefest.livejournal.com/
I'll be doing a week of Ms Isabella Swan Cullen.
"Fandom feminists" revile her as anti-choice (because she made a choice they didn't like--without ever criticising anyone else's choices), personality-free and a bad example.
Her own fandom frequently is more interested in her boyfriend (and eventual husband) or her would-be boyfriend, and one occasionally hears charming things like "she's a slut because she let Jacob kiss her and told Edward he had to put up with their friendship," or "how dare she lead Jacob on?" At best she's often dismissed as an Edward or Jacob delivery system and at worst she's criticised with the same gendered slurs and harsh misogyny as every other female lead we love for being desired and for knowing what she wants, even if maybe it isn't good for her.
And we all know what the haters in the Twilight anti-fandom have to say.
(As usual per memes of this nature, no hating is allowed, you have the right to hate her, but go hate her somewhere else please.)
I may also put in a good word here and there for Mae and Sin who keep the Brothers Ryves from falling over their own arses, and for Isabelle Lightwood, if I have time :)
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