I get people not liking characters, and that sometimes those characters will be female characters, but when you are ALWAYS meh about the girls but you love your dudeships, I judge. I've had several conversations with long-time slashers and they'll be going on about a movie they just saw, and how amazingly ~deep and meaningful~ the relationship between the men is. I'll be like, "Oh, I absolutely loved [x female character]". I have gotten the, "Yeah...she's okay I guess." response more times than I care to count.
And they'll literally pick ANY reason to try and explain why they dislike a female character. "She's too happy." "She's just not very well-written." "I didn't find her especially interesting." "She's too aggressive." "She's too sexual." "I just don't think they have chemistry." That's all legitimate occasionally, but when you make a pattern of talking about how great the male characters are but the characters you don't care about are almost universally female, it's an issue.
Suspiciously, the female characters they like (because they do feel obligated to like some women, just so they can say it's not about a character's gender) tend to be the ones that don't interfere with a ship. Like Frigga. Or Pepper, who works just as well as Tony's friend as she does when he's his partner.
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And they'll literally pick ANY reason to try and explain why they dislike a female character. "She's too happy." "She's just not very well-written." "I didn't find her especially interesting." "She's too aggressive." "She's too sexual." "I just don't think they have chemistry." That's all legitimate occasionally, but when you make a pattern of talking about how great the male characters are but the characters you don't care about are almost universally female, it's an issue.
Suspiciously, the female characters they like (because they do feel obligated to like some women, just so they can say it's not about a character's gender) tend to be the ones that don't interfere with a ship. Like Frigga. Or Pepper, who works just as well as Tony's friend as she does when he's his partner.