#tournament mods need to be humbled so they stop thinking they don't need to be critical about who they include

[weirdgirlshowdown]

i've seen people talking about it, but none of the posts are getting much traction, so i'd like to say something here where i have a bit of a wider audience

i'm seeing that the schrodinger's gender bracket [the one that everyone was clowning on for including emperor belos from the owl house] includes a lot of characters who are canonical transgender women [gwen stacy from spiderverse] or just transmisogynistic caricatures [chihiro fujisaki from danganronpa] and honestly i find it really disgusting that they're being either misgendered [in the first case] or praised [in the second] by their inclusion in the tournament. from the sheer amount of characters included it seems like this probably wasn't done out of intentional malice, rather just including every submitted character, but if that's the case it's an extremely irresponsible way to run a bracket. irresponsible at best and intentionally transmisogynistic at worst. from mod to mod, you should not have done this.

please don't harass this mod, by the way. instead, if you're ever considering running a tournament of your own, i'm begging you to do what they didn't and be responsible with the characters you choose to include, especially if the poll is about any kind of marginalized demographic. thanks goodnight