lyrangalia:

falconrune:

skull-bearer:

falconrune:

@fandom please stop using “i dont want any more heteronormative relationships” as code for “get the female characters out of here”

Fandom writes a lot of woman-erasing slash for canon where the female characters are badly written or absent. In fandoms where there was numerous well-written female characters, femslash is huge and women are everywhere.

Fandom is not the problem here. Canon is.

fandom shoves out women even if they are well written and even if the male characters they are discarded for are terribly written.

Fandom operates on a double standard with women characters.

Fandom demonizes female characters who exemplify the exact same qualities as male characters.

Fandom uses gendered insults about female characters’ sexuality while prizing male characters’ sexuality.

Fandom reduces women of colour characters to tropes while developing extensive backstories for minor white male characters.

Fandom writes female characters as plot devices and volunteer wombs for male characters, reducing them to their bodies and how they can be used for male characters.

Fandom has shown through fanfiction that they are absolutely capable of turning bad writing into good fanfiction. The fact is fandom absolutely chooses to turn that talent to almost exclusively white male characters to the detriment of female characters and male characters of colour. 

Fandom has demonstrated that when canon is the problem, they are perfectly capable of fixing those problems. Fandom itself is a problem because of how it makes the choice of what problems to fix.