This isn't a particularly original complaint

[dolorosa_12]

Fandom, I love you to bits, but do you think you could manage, just for once, to acknowledge that female characters exist?

Sincerely,

Ronni

This post is brought to you by Fandom A, which seems to have reduced its most awesome female character to being a sort of cheer squad to the main slash pairing, Fandom B, which alternates between ignoring my favourite character and blaming her for the stupidity of her husband and son and only mentions my second-favourite (teenage) character when discussing which creepy old man to pair her off with, and Fandom C, which prefers incest pairings to writing about female characters (admittedly, the canon is horrible in this regard and tends to kill off every female character as quickly as possible).

This post is also brought to you by the knowledge that if people wrote fic for my favourite mini-fandom, it would all be angsty incestuous pairings of the (male) Imperial family members, with a side order of woobiefied (male) villain.

Bonus points if you can guess the fandoms.

PS It's not so much that I want people to stop writing fic, making art and producing meta focusing on male characters. It's that I wish it could be supplemented with equally good amounts of fic, art and meta about female characters. I wish female-centric texts would become as popular as male-centric texts.

Comments

[hickumu]

Fandom C is Supernatural. Especially frustrating because, especially in the early seasons, they wrote damn good female characters.

Fandom B, I'm drawing a blank on, and come on, Fandom A could be any one of half a dozen shows nowadays.

[goodbyebird]

Hah I guessed SPN too, and yes, TW is a perfect fit for A. Ladies never get anywhere near the amount of love the guys get :/

[soapyhermit.livejournal.com]

Fandom A = teen wolf (don't watch it but guessing by the slash pairing that it's Sterek)

Fandom B - A song of ice and fire.

Fandom C - SPN?