#i’m already in the minority for always having women as my fave characters in 98% of the media i consume

[stargatelov3r]

Yeah, people suck. Now that the fandom is on life support, the hate has retreated back into the shadows. Thank goodness! I've read "gen" stories by slash writers where John and Rodney both secretly hated Elizabeth, who was shrill and incompetent. The worst were negative physical comments about Torri (which I never understood, cause the woman is gorgeous).

That’s absolutely baffling to me. I know some people don’t like Elizabeth and that’s fine, not every character is for a everyone, but I don’t get how you can actually hate her

And hating her only for the reason bc she “gets in the way” is just nuts and unreflective.

I’m glad it has become less hateful tho.

But also????? John and Rodney secretly hating Elizabeth? I feel like every slash shipper is always on the look out for the most minute movements, gestures, shots and cuts and scenes between their ship (and i’m guilty of that myself) but you gotta look past that at some point don’t you?

Like for me, I usually focus on one character or one ship the first time watching something and I ignore/forget about 80% about everything else that’s happening but upon rewatches I notice so much more, I realize how full the shows are, how intricate the relationships to other characters, outside the ship!

Also if you don’t ship John/Elizabeth and you want to get her “out of the way” there are so many better things to do than making them hate her😭 a) don’t put her in the story at all. b) make her oblivious to their relationship. c) make her ignore the relationship. d) make her ship them too!

Do whatever the fuck you want but it’s embarrassing to absolutely mischaracterize a woman character for the benefit of *your* ship.

I’m sorry I kinda went off the rails here but that actually bothers me a lot even tho it’s now (mostly) in the past.

#i’m already in the minority for always having women as my fave characters in 98% of the media i consume #and being a femslasher + um… canon shippe i wanna say? on top of it (although the latter doesn’t make me a minority) #but i just get VERY defensive about women when it’s about this kind of thing #like wtf #i don’t even get the appeal of writing about a character i actually hate😭 like what the fuck😭 #asks #answered #mathgirl24 #sga