the misogyny in this fandom shows up in ways that are more subtle than just straight up “I HATE WOMEN”
it shows in the way laurance and garroth are praised and love for being charlatans and casanovas, for having women pine after them but turn around and think it is weird and gross that the same thing happened to aphmau, but with the opposite gender ie male attention rather than female attention.
it comes in the way kim is repeatedly bashed and treated as a useless worthless character because people believe a character like, lets say laurance for the sake of this example, should have taken her place instead. it shows in the way people worry more about dantes honor and character and how nicole is horrible for not saying anything about their child even though dante was the one that left. it shows in the way travis has always been held in a higher esteem than katelyn, both in mcd and in mystreet. it shows in the way michi is universally hated by everyone for the stalking, for the black mail, for the harrasment, but when a character like gene or ein do the same they are forgiven and it is watered down to them just being complex and traumatized characters who deep inside are good people. it shows in how zane is labeled a complex villain in mcd, but ivy is considered evil and horrible and a two dimensional villain.
just stop, pause for a moment and think about the drastic difference this fandom treats male characters, versus female characters.
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