#also im done with exams FINALLY which means fanart coming soon

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Idk if we're on the boat or not, but I remember reading an essay about how some female characters are excused for their bad behaviour because people simp for them and they get reduced to the bare minimum of their traits and I wanted to know if you agreed or not

Personally, I believe that's mainly a thing that happens in fandoms dense with cishet men such as various video game series and anime but I'd say it's kinda the opposite in fandoms dense with girls. I mean let's just talk about this fandom, the way that Wendy has been villanized and OOCed in every single popular comic in this fandom is insane. I could name names but like, literally I'd be here for hours. Take one popular creator in this whole fandom and they've probably made her a mean bitchy cheerleader. Or sheila being made to be homophobic in every half baked cringey style fanfic even though she's canonically supportive of queerness all around. Or Henrietta or Bebe or -insert any and all female characters in this show-. This fandom is obsessed with making their female characters villains and it's honestly weird and gross. I do think, just as men sexualizing them, that the people in this fandom also reduce them to bare traits and even worse traits they don't even showcase. I've seen Wendy and Sheila be villains in this fandom more times than Cartman. This fandom loves hating female characters and they're stuff in the same 2014 fujoshi thought train of this girl stands in between my smol bean uwu cinnamon roll gay ship so she's Satan herself. It's gross, it's weird, stop doing that. So much of this fandom has turned the characters just into OCs. I mean just look at the most popular versions of Kyle, he's literally just become Wendy but while being a guy. And incredibly feminized and OOC guy at all although he canonically doesnt like feminine and over the top styles and aesthetics but that's a topic for another time. Tldr; this fandom hates girls but it's still to heteronormative not to inherently make one of the characters in their gay ships basically a girl.

#also im done with exams FINALLY which means fanart coming soon