I still boggle at the idea that female characters are less-written as a group, at least outside the circle of people who just prefer to write about male characters.
Right? It's quite strange how practically every fic that turns up on my f-page has a female character as a main character. Sometimes two. Makes you wonder how that happens. :)
I know! How is it so hard for people to understand that their experience of fandom does not equal all of fandom? Obviously my fandom experience is skewed by the fact that I am mostly only interested in canons with many female characters, but it's not like that's something I actually work at!
I think, "there's not enough of X thing that I really want to read" or "there isn't enough good fic for thing X" is the constant cry of all fanfic readers everywhere. I spent a few weeks reading all the Tony/Bruce/Pepper I could find, and let me tell you, there was definitely not enough of that on AO3! And absolutely not enough telling the precise story I wanted to read. But fic written by people who believe that they are counter-acting systematic prejudice by writing Tony/Pepper/Bruce is also not likely to be telling a story I particularly want to read. (And I say this as someone who actually ran a female-character centric ficathon for SPN back in the day, because there were a lot of great female characters around, and people including me wanted more fic for them.) That communal self-description just doesn't read to me like the stories are coming from a place of love for the characters
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Right? It's quite strange how practically every fic that turns up on my f-page has a female character as a main character. Sometimes two. Makes you wonder how that happens. :)
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