I don't need to provide any further evidence either really because when you're a lesbian and talk about this at all people start clutching their pearls and getting violently angry

it's always, ALWAYS, about othering entire swathes of people because of the unconscious need for power and control

This all becomes very obvious with a butch lesbian OC, and butch characters are so often treated as lacking both the appeal of man or woman characters

Women get a lot of attention, some would argue more, yes, but that's because people want to fuck them. Look at the amount of people shipping with unchanged straight male NPCs though and the hundreds of thousands of words they write about them compared to what people do for women here.

it's like an allocation and if you decide to make a character a woman, 50 percent or more of her character is taken up by "trait: woman."

people innately just think men are more interesting because they are largely free of this baggage. they are full of potential where women are restricted.

the thing I always think about with regard to this is the vast degree of character roles and archetypes you never see women falling into at all because of the fact people don't know how to write woman characters without also somehow tying everything back into their identity as a woman. it's baggage.

*nodding sagaciously*

if someone sincerely called me a misandrist i think i would take it as an honor. i am angering and upsetting the right people

i don't have to tell you about the misogyny, misogynoir, & transmisogyny (in order of how most people prioritize if they do at all) in video game fandoms. or fandoms at all. or, you know, being a real person this world

I always try to make them myself but alas I am too masc to properly inhabit the mindset.... I covet the allure of the other

a woman will speak two sentences of dialogue expressing mild disagreement or conflict with a male character and the male audience will be like "she's literally the most annoying character to ever exist"