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people still use "i'm not interested in women from this story because they're badly written" argument all the time and i'm not saying it can't be valid, but rather… yes, it used to be like that 100%, but lately i noticed that i can really really like female characters in the story (they're often my favorite characters), but when i go to the fandom, i start gradually losing interest for those characters, because they're either: 1) mischaracterized by the fandom 2) villainized by the fandom 3) turned into a boring half of a popular ship. we need to admit to ourselves at some point that fandom is the problem as well (and always has been), not just the authors.