THIS
you’re absolutely right i literally couldn’t agree more- i see way too much terrible female representation in bl
But it is the truth though, women are too dramatic and I say this as a woman.
Also, tell me you can’t envision women actually doing the stuff that these authors put in their story.
Men are just as capable of being dramatic and as sabotaging as the women portrayed in these BL works. But that "villain woman in a BL" trope is so overused that the readers are conditioned to hate the women every time they ever so slightly appear.
Of course, women can be toxic too. Everyone regardless of their gender is capable of toxicity. But why do we condemn and villainize women more compared to men?
Just because women are more outspoken about their ways of expressing does not make them anymore dramatic than men who tend to express their feelings in silent pettiness.
this made me so sad to read. what’s with all that internalized misogyny? what you’re saying is extremely sexist- not to talk of quite generalizing- women are often portrayed this way due to media, mostly media directed by men to portray this UNTRUE and ungoing agenda that women are petty/ dramatic boycrazy or whatever. i’m not saying this to bash you bc it literally isn’t your fault with how women are treated (even in this day and age) i just think you should ask yourself why you think that and where that roots from- especially because you’re a woman too and looking down on urself for it is not it
A good chunk of BL writers are women. When they write awful women characters I lowkey think it's due their own internal misogyny. They're the same people who claim to only have male friends because women are too "dramatic".