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[-] Khrux@ttrpg.network 22 points 1 year ago

A lot of female characters all do he same thing; The protagonist men are getting up to shenanigans and their loved ones are telling them to stop it for the sake of love and / or responsibility. The thing is that as the audience we're entirely there for the shenanigans because that's there the action or tension takes place.

Suddenly you have a character that is telling the protagonist to refuse the call to adventure which results in delaying the excitement, it's a recipe that's makes the audience associate the character with boring parts of the show, especially in breaking bad where the relationship is depicted as an old marriage with no romance left, nobody is rooting for it.

[-] ech@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I'm very aware of the trope. That doesn't justify the level of disdain shown in comments like the one jackoneill so eloquently shared on this very thread.

[-] Khrux@ttrpg.network 7 points 1 year ago

I agree, I suppose the root of what I meant was that the hatred Skyler gets is half blatant misogyny and half because she's written to be the fun police.

I remember when the TV show Arcane was coming out, there were lots of judgemental comments towards a character called Caitlin, but 3/4 of the main characters of that show are women and the others didn't see similar hate, but it was Caitlin who often made the lawful and restrainted decisions.

Although I also agree that if the character of Caitlin was a man instead, they'd have gotten much less hate.

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