#i've heard ppl say that asagiri is bad at writing women

[tachiguin]

The phenomenon of BSD female characters being oversimplified into girlboss caricatures and/or plot accessories to a male character’s narrative is truly unfortunate. Because BSD female characters are so interesting [pointing wildly] look at them!!!! She has feelings and traumas too!!!

Gin is often reduced to his role as Akutagawa’s little sister, and yet! Their personality and backstory is fairly fleshed out outside of being the sibling of a MC. Gin is withdrawn and didn’t reveal basic info about himself (possibility lending itself to the headcanon that Gin struggles with gender dysphoria and questioning their own identity), but still cares about their friends and/or coworkers, in their own quiet way.

Similarly, Naomi is frequently treated as a footnote in Tanizaki’s story, and yet her personality is equally as fleshed out as his. She’s bold and outspoken, a little bit impish, and extremely intelligent. If Tanizaki claims to be a passive character, Naomi is the opposite; we always see her taking initiative to move the plot forward (calling Fukuzawa to make the decision to rescue Atsushi, escaping from the Guild with Haruno, etc). Also, she literally threw herself in the firing line of a submachine gun

Yosano and Kouyou get girlbossified a lot, and yet they both have their own flaws and past traumas that they carry with them:

Kouyou is resolved to remain in the darkness, after failing to escape the light once. However, she can no longer say that it’s impossible to escape after seeing Kyouka do so, and Mori himself has expressed that Kouyou can escape if she wanted to. It’s so interesting that Kouyou replied that she no longer has any desire to; she’s resigned to living in darkness

I’m going to cut this post short before I go on unhinged rants about every female character in the story, but feel free to talk about your favorite girls in the tags please! They literally have so much potential I’m crying 24/7 over them

#bsd #bungou stray dogs #ozaki kouyou #akutagawa gin #tanizaki naomi #i've heard ppl say that asagiri is bad at writing women #& thou i don't fully agree or disagree w that #i also think that part of the problem is that #the fandom needs to TALK about women #drop the meta bro my body is ready