Gender On Television: It's Like Feminism Never Happened

[Wiendish Fitch]

I can't tell you how relieved I am that I never got into Once Upon a Time. I'd have yanked all my hair out. 

BTW, I still hate Catra. I don't care what that says about me. 

[JustHereForFood]

18 hours ago, Affogato said:

Anout the gender thing the question is why are people so focused and defensive about rhe guys on the show? There was a largely female cast and some of their characters did bad things.  

They all took responsibility for their actions and were called out on them when appropriate. The show was actually pretty good IMO for showing how female characters can also make mistakes and learn from them.

(Anya being the exception, but that is often pointed out, at least here.)

[Affogato]

2 minutes ago, JustHereForFood said:

They all took responsibility for their actions and were called out on them when appropriate. The show was actually pretty good IMO for showing how female characters can also make mistakes and learn from them.

(Anya being the exception, but that is often pointed out, at least here.)

I would also say this was true of the male characters. So the question remains. 
 

I haven’t time to write a really good answer. I think that fans often react with systemic sexism, racism, social expectations.  A lot of splitting goes on in any online fandom, including political, tv, movies. I think, though, that a lot of the buffy arguments come from back when teens werr using the show and each other as a sounding board to figure out how they felt about things. 
 

 

[tearknee]

[stream of consciousness in wrong thread --still working my way around this confusing maze of forums]

Edited Yest. at 08:15 PM by tearknee