#female kataang stans are like those women who try to convince you men have it just as hard

[longing-for-rain]

I think it’s funny how people point to the existence of female kataang stans as proof that kataang isn’t written for the male gaze when every female kataang stan I’ve interacted with has said something to the effect of “but he’s so nice, he wouldn’t have done something like that” to dismiss his blatant violation of Katara’s boundaries on screen. It is unfortunately not uncommon for women to flock to the defense of male interests.

#do you realize how many times real sa victims hear things like this? #female kataang stans are like those women who try to convince you men have it just as hard #and say things like ‘it was just one little touch is it really worth ruining his life over?’ #again do you know how common it is for sa victims to hear this? #how they are wrong for feeling hurt because the perpetrator was ‘good’ or ‘traumatized’ or ‘didn’t know better’? #i see you #atla #anti kataang #aang critical #katara deserved better #not to mention kataang was a fantasy of two men from 2005 #whereas zutara by contrast was primarily conceptualized by women #and back when being openly misogynistic was still acceptable #the fact that zutara was most popular among women and girls was used as evidence of it being inferior