WARNING: Nothing but Salt Below

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I’m on shitty mobile so I can’t put in a read more cut so here’s your heads up.

I’m really fucking tired of people saying “where are our good female characters?” and then just completely fucking shitting all over them the minute they show interest in a man. You have a series FULL of interesting and dimensional female characters but the minute they show interest in a man or a man shows interest in them (or heaven forbid they date) they suddenly are reduced to “nothing more than a love interest” in the fandoms eyes. The author isn’t the one who’s reducing them to it. The fans are. The fans are the ones who are throwing all their previous characterization away and reducing them to just a love interest. For such a feminist site this is ridiculous. No man is ever “reduced to a love interest” even if they are given less panel time, have less characterisation, and are more of a minor character than their female counterpart. It’s always the woman who is somehow reduced.

And heaven fucking forbid they do something “problematic”. There are a lot of double standards in this fandom I’m noticing. Females hurt Kaneki and they can never be Forgiven but a male (Arima comes to mind) can be Forgiven instantly. Doesn’t this seem a little bit sexist guys? Akira is a “terrible mother figure” to Haise and hated for it but there is not even 1/10 of that hate or criticism given to Arima.

And tons of problematic things exist in this series so I don’t understand why the bulk of all criticism is directed toward female relationships with Kaneki and why the female characters are hated more than the males for their behaviour.

Female characters are hated all too easily in media for showing problematic traits but when a male does it’s okay and just makes them “more realistic.”

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