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Mar. 30th, 2010 05:53 pmI kind of love that the day after this was posted to ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
metafandom , this was posted.
The first post, about Castle (which I've seen the first season of, but haven't posted on) and The Mentalist (which I haven't seen, and have no plans to), is, in essence "I find the writing on these shows to be sexist, and therefore, the female characters to be weak, and I don't like them. I do not blame the writers (who commit the sexism) or hold it against the male characters (who benefit from the sexism) just the female characters (who are the victims of the sexism). Also, this means the actresses are bad actresses."
The second post, in essence, is "stop making excuses for characters and letting them get away with everything just because they have dangly bits."
Granted, reading comments to the first, I don't think the OP intended for it to sound the way it came across, but it's still a good example of "blame everything on the women, because it's easier than actually facing the real problem," and the second is largely focused on the white (or societal equivalent) presumably straight man vs the female lead of the same, and doesn't get into how it tends to prevail across the board, but just show up worse with women (especially those seen as love interests, potential or otherwise) but it's still something that could do with being shouted from the rooftops.
metafandom , this was posted.The first post, about Castle (which I've seen the first season of, but haven't posted on) and The Mentalist (which I haven't seen, and have no plans to), is, in essence "I find the writing on these shows to be sexist, and therefore, the female characters to be weak, and I don't like them. I do not blame the writers (who commit the sexism) or hold it against the male characters (who benefit from the sexism) just the female characters (who are the victims of the sexism). Also, this means the actresses are bad actresses."
The second post, in essence, is "stop making excuses for characters and letting them get away with everything just because they have dangly bits."
Granted, reading comments to the first, I don't think the OP intended for it to sound the way it came across, but it's still a good example of "blame everything on the women, because it's easier than actually facing the real problem," and the second is largely focused on the white (or societal equivalent) presumably straight man vs the female lead of the same, and doesn't get into how it tends to prevail across the board, but just show up worse with women (especially those seen as love interests, potential or otherwise) but it's still something that could do with being shouted from the rooftops.
