I might get flamed a bit for this but… I do genuinely believe this fandom has a bit of a misogyny problem when it comes to sierra.
Now I understand that there’s absolutely no justification for almost all of her actions and what she did to Cody is beyond disgusting. However, it irks me so much that Cody isn’t held to the same standard. “Oh but what Cody did to Gwen can’t even begin to compare to what sierra did to him!” True, but you gotta remember that regardless of Cody’s victim status he still did some really creepy shit. The two things I want to highlight in particular are Cody’s actions in the Amazon and Jamaica episodes- first off, cody flashed his privates at Gwen; she genuinely believed he had underwear on and let her use his x ray glasses knowing she was gonna see his dick without warning if she did and didn’t even try to stop her. He also took a photo of himself getting in her personal space while she was asleep which led to her hand getting seriously burned. Again, sierras numerous violations of Cody have no excuse but it does feel like there’s a big misogyny factor when there are people who will straight up block you for saying anything remotely positive about sierra or coderra because she’s a “predator” yet have Cody as one of their favorites claiming that he’s some precious person who’s completely innocent.
Also with how many people claim that sierra is a bad character because “she’s nothing without Cody.” Sierra has a lot to her character- namely her hyperfixation on the show and how she’s incredibly knowledgeable about all things total drama. I do agree that they should have utilized this trait more but sierra isn’t just some damsel in distress like the fandom makes her out to be, she’s an incredibly intelligent force to be reckoned with and uses her intensive TD knowledge to absolutely kill it in some challenges. There’s plenty of male TD characters who don’t have much going for them aside from their one (1) gimmick or their love interest yet I don’t ever really see this type of complaint made about them.
I made my own design of Cody as an adult, I mainly made the design for some trody drawings that I have in mind :b + I don't like using other people's designs to make ship art
Kind of fucked up that Cody didn't get a medical evacuation in Island.
Every other character who suffers debilitating injuries got one, but the show goes to lengths to tell us that Cody was voted out by his team because of his injuries, not disqualified due to them. Chris was perfectly content to let him continue competing in a full body cast if the Gophers hadn't've voted him out.
I don't know if I've made it clear, but Sierra has heavily tinted rose-colored glasses when it comes to Cody. She sees him with a dopey smile, she assumes she's won him over. She sees him blush and stumble through the challenges, she assumes his feelings for her are too overwhelming. And when she hears Cody and Noah kissed... It must've been Noah's fault. Noah must of manipulated him somehow. Noah must've gotten in his head, cause there's no way Cody would ever like anyone that wasn't her. Right...?
She's not right. It's gonna take a while for her to come to terms with it, though.
Bonus dialogue between team Chris I had to cut in favor of Noah chewing Sierra out:
Noah: He’s NOT a boyfriend and I didn’t do anything WRONG!!
Duncan: You don’t think kissing another girl’s guy is WRONG?
Owen: Woah woah woah, hold on! Noah wouldn’t do something like that! And he *just* said Cody’s not her boyfriend!
Noah: She’s only saying he is cause she’s DELUSIONAL.
Noah: He doesn’t even LIKE HER!
Duncan: How would you know?? How long have you been doing this [song and dance] exactly?
Owen: It couldn’t have been long! I would have known something about it, right?
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