Is fiction reinforcing the "Women are Wonderful" effect?

lifebeginsat9pm · 2026-05-24T06:51:48+00:00

Kinda noticed it in Fallout show. Female villains treated super empathetically compared to male ones. Spoilers:

Barb revealed to be evil and supporting the war? Nah she was threatened in an elevator and only doing everything for her daughter, so Cooper has to stop being mad at her.

Moldaver as an interesting but ruthless raider villain? Nah it was all for the goodest cause ever and she dies a wasteland hero actually

Stephanie being a psycho overseer? Actually it’s coz of all this trauma from having to survive as a persecuted Canadian. Lucy’s dad tho, nah he’s just a corporate kiss-ass, no trauma just pure evil

HyakuBikki · 2026-05-24T18:24:00+00:00

Yes, the best example I can come up with off the top of my head is Sadie Adler from RDR2. She's a full on Mary sue who never faces the consequences of her terrible decisions at any point in the story whatsoever. when she does suffer it's usually because of no fault of her own and she's just a victim of evil men, even though she's no better than them like at all.

getting innocents killed, almost getting her own gang killed multiple times, just annoying and rude to everyone around her; she's easily the worst character in the gang, yet she's beloved by the fandom because she's a woman that hateful feminists can self insert themselves into and low self esteem guys can simp for.

elishash · 2026-05-25T16:45:34+00:00

I barely replied to this sub but the answer is RWBY, look at how there's barely any gay representation compared to lesbians while male villains get more deaths and no redemption arcs compared to the female villains in the show. Yet you have stans insist the show isn't sexist towards men and that anyone who mentioned that is a grifter and a misogynist and incel. And if RWBY is a male led show it will be considered a misogynistic by the numbers Shonen show and I'll criticized it either way. Stans don't care if men get treated like disposables compared to the women that's not to say the show doesn't have issues on writing women but still favors them except Jaune of course.

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