imploder:

mininecro:

sweetbabyraysgourmetsauces:

sweetbabyraysgourmetsauces:

People that get invested in fiction and examine fictional lore need to learn how to tell the difference between which lore is actually important to the series and which lore is an excuse for something.

If Dwarven women are capable of growing beards, but have cultural reasons not to, that is an excuse that they made not to give them beards.

If a female character can only wear skimpy clothing for some given reason, that is an excuse to sexualize her.

If an organization can only be populated men, that is often an excuse to not have to create female characters.

Its all made up. It isn’t a foundation of the universe that they can’t control. They wrote it to be like that.

Since this post is back again: you cannot explain away a doylist question (”Why did the author make it so the dwarven women not have beards?”) with a Watsonian answer (”because they have a cultural reason not to”).

A great explanation of the terms here-

Hey everyone who consumes any fictional media at all. This is so very important to understand.

thepotatoalex:

its-sappho-bitch:

rashaka:

notsomolly:

thehollowbutterfly:

beka-tiddalik:

derekmalikpoindexter:

wilwheaton:

greenekangaroo:

scrawlers:

australopithecusrex:

relax-o-vision:

dedalvs:

roachpatrol:

kateordie:

freezecooper:

Ppl be like “ I want an actual male gem, not just Steven.”

Jeez, it’s like having only one character

to represent your whole gender

in a group composed all of another gender

is a bit upsetting huh?

I wonder

what

that’s like

no really

can you 

even imagine

what this lack of representation

MUST 

FEEL 

LIKE

This

post

isn’t

long

enough

none of the listed shows are named after the one female character, either

it’s actually physically impossible for me to not reblog this post.

I want to say I’ve reblogged this before, but I’m reblogging again for the brilliant addition of, “None of the listed shows are named after the one female character, either” because FUCKING THANK YOU.

mmmmmhm.

Every time I reblog this, there are new shows on the list.

Wow

it’s almost

as though

this happens

almost constantly

But normally you don’t notice, because it’s not about you.

If I stop rebloging this, assume that I am dead

crazy

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how

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it keeps 

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happening

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Fun fact! This has a name. It’s called the Smurfette Principle (because Smurfette is probably the most obvious example of this imbalance).
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheSmurfettePrinciple

Heck