Have you noticed the ways in which female charactcers are hated for things male characters are lauded for (frex, the parallels between Uhura and McCoy in Reboot, and yet how much of the fandom hates Uhura but doesn't hate McCoy), and generally criticized far more often, often for a reucurring set of faults (I've seen characters as diverse as Mai, Uhura, Rosie Cotton, Martha Jones, Sara from White Collar and Moira and Angel from XMFC referred to as 'snooty', 'useless', 'bitchy' and 'have no chemistry with [canon love interest]').
It's not that one can't ever dislike a female character, but there are certain disturbing patterns that often surface in the threads of dislike.
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Date: 2012-02-13 04:54 pm (UTC)It's not that one can't ever dislike a female character, but there are certain disturbing patterns that often surface in the threads of dislike.