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loki-zen · 2 years ago

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a better articulation of something i had a kinda confused conversation around the other week:

one of the negative effects, for me, of the way that media/literature in aggregate tends to ignore and sideline women is that it can make it hard for me to get into genuinely good stuff just because it is (or superficially appears to be) part of a trend that I am ground down by and fed up of.

this isn't the same as saying that each individual piece of media is Bad or unwatchable/unreadable for not bucking the trend - that isn't how it works! - it's just a flaw that's hard for me to ignore for reasons that aren't the fault of this particular work, but which result from the prevalence of that particular flaw in other works.

I wish I didn't feel like this! but I do.

#I think there are lots of people of whom something like this is true #not just wrt women but other groups and personal bugbears #(obviously there are individual works wherein lacking developed female characters doesn't even qualify as a flaw as well)#(e.g. The Name of the Rose (set in a monastery))#(these works can bug me less but they don't not contribute to the sense of the bigger picture at least in some cases)#(after all there were historically plenty of environments which were nearly all female but you don't see blockbuster movies set in them)#(my comparison has drifted from monks to war movies)

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