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[astridv]

People who know me know that I’ve in the past spoken up against the denigration of female characters. Actually I’ve lost a good chunk of my LJ friends list over that issue, and I stand behind every word I said. But I don’t think that denigrating male characters is the answer to that problem. In my opinion, the answer lies in promoting fanworks about female characters. Writing fic. Drawing fanart. Reccing those works. Commenting. Exchanges. In calling out unfair character bashing. But I’m not going to choose between fangirling female characters and fangirling male ones. I want both. I need both in a canon in order to get really pulled in.

Is fandom seriously just capable of thinking in binary terms? No nuance, no context? I get backlash but it makes no sense to throw the baby out with the bathwater, and there’s a lot of that going on. Has been for years. It’s so unproductive.

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[astridv]

I think age also factors into it, tumblr skews younger than LJ/DW.

Yeah, I'm mostly talking about this ridiculous Ward vs Natasha rivalry which bugs me tremendously, as a fan of both. But the trend has been going on for a while. I'm also irked by the argument that Ward shouldn't get a shot at redemption because he's a straight white cis dude and if you have the gall to root for his redemption, you're racist and sexist and should shut up. How is that promoting diversity.

As an aside, they didn't even say Nat couldn't beat the lie detector. If Koenig was the one asking the questions, I'm sure she did. A machine is only as good as its operator. ;)

And I'm reasonably convinced that the reason they keep bringing up Natasha is to draw parallels between her backstory and Ward's. Which is very similar, even if his haters don't want to see it. It's not to downplay her skills.