blackshikamaru:
blackshikamaru:
not to sound like tumblr but i really do wanna see more flawed woman characters who are fucked up in ways that impact themselves and others, but not centered around the harm they do onto men/male love interests. like “flawed” women in media always are seen as broken due to their inability to fit within a heteropatriarchal household. they cant cook/clean, they dont show love, they dislike children, they are cold/distant. and like thats fun i guess until they get fixed for a man which is boring. and its not that i want them to never develop as people, but i wanna see this development happen in a way that isnt focused on which guy theyre fucking, ya know. and i wanna see more interesting fucked up girls that are messed up in ways that are funny or heartbreaking and obnoxious or tragic. sometimes it gets fixed and sometimes it doesnt and sometimes theyre bad people and sometimes theyre just realistic! ya know!
but like that said im also really tired of women with flaws being abusive, racist, hurtful, and degrading. im not gonna write up headcanons about how the space nazi in star wars probably cooks dinner for the army she helps enslave! i dont care about the gritty realism of jessica jones manipulating and abusing a system of racism to leverage herself above the black men in her life! im uncomfortable with women who are abusive and uncaring towards their romantic partners! and yes i can appreciate some of these women being written as villains or antagonists and fleshed out in a way to carry on the story, but these arent the stories that reflect the types of people i want to look up to. and im really uncomfortable with the type of discourse that goes around insisting that i have to see these girls as ~feminist~ icons even though they reflect the same white abusive women who time and time again dehumanize and wreck me.
i dont know man! girls! they exist! i want complicated women who im able to relate to their flaws and struggles!