Of Swords and Parasols

My theory is that when Kim Possible started out, they had enough male-oriented programming that they could keep it completely centered around Kim, but in seasons three and four(which wasn't originally supposed to have existed, and is really, really weird for many reasons), they had stuff like Hannah Montanna going and guys were responding to Kim Possible more than they had expected, so.. Honestly, it's not really a gender thing for me, but simply that Kim's a decent character, and Ron just comes off as really irritating to me instead of the affable goofball he's supposed to be. Therefore, the first season or so kind of vindicates me. (I used to watch the Disney Channel fairly often, but I no longer have TV and it's not really high priority for me enough to rent it) In the early episodes, Ron is all but openly derided by the writers. The villains can't even remember his name, and he makes a series of very stupid blunders. Still, his friendship with Kim is honestly very sweet, and I don't think it fits well as a romance at all. By the way, you might like this: One of the first episodes is centered around Ron becoming obsessed with his physical appearance and delivering the moral to him that it's what's inside that counts. (There is a very amusing catfight involved with an equally self-obsessed villain's sidekick.) That episode also features one of his worse mistakes of all time, in which he basically creates a recurring supervillain.