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[meganbmoore]

 For better or for worse, based on a few posts on the f-lists today about shipwars in their fandoms, I've created the LJ user interest liking multiple female characters.  (Though, if there's a better version of this, someone tell me.) 

ETA:  Related interest that's been around for a bit:  all the fictional women you hate.

Comments

[annwyd.livejournal.com]

Heh, yeah.

I don't like every (female) character ever either, but...yeah, I often don't quite understand why people will be so eager to praise certain aspects of a fiction (i.e. whatever character they most identify with/crush on) and so thoroughly bash others. They were written by the same person, most of the time. Some might be more inspired or better-constructed than others, sure, but in the end, if a character is badly written enough to make me dislike him or her as a character, there are probably going to be other problems with the work as a whole.

But I've long since recognized that most people don't think of characters the way I do.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I mean, if the criticism seemed to be based on the same standards being applied regardless of gender or status as love interest, it wouldn't bother me. But it oh-so-clearly rarely is.