Current mood:	irritated
Current music:	Desi Hits Bollywood Show with the Desi Fly Chicks podcast episode 50

Sorry I don't like your genre, but I still think women are awesome. Deal.
I am sick and tired of being told I'm not watching the right shows or consuming the right media to be a good, pro-woman woman.

Just because I don't like supposed "girl shows" like Grey's Anatomy and Ugly Betty does not mean that I don't like women! It doesn't even mean that I don't like fictional women!

About half of my favorite fictional characters?

WOMEN.

In fact, I've noticed that if a show or a comic book in the genres I like has a female lead, an extremely interesting major female character, or a strong gender balance I tend to be much more likely to enjoy it, all other things being equal.

Just because the other half of my favorite fictional characters are men does not mean I am self hating! Nor does my lack of interest in soap opera plots about cattiness or infidelity. Sorry.

Recently, I've seen a certain amount of: "Sniff. Oh look. Some SGA fans are being sexist. How unsurprising, given that the show is about MEN. You could have the best show on television be about women and no fangirls would watch it cause it is about women. And you all hate women, you just like boys. You should like our awesome shows about fashion and people who have cheating sex in a hospital."

Ahem.

Maybe, oh here's a thought. Maybe some of us like shows that tend to have male leads as a genre accident! Because we like shows that are about things that marketers want to sell to men even when the demographics say that most of the fans are women.

And, you know. Since we like shows about space and stuff blowing up and cops the main characters tend - tend! Not always are, but tend to be male.

But you know? When they're women, a lot of us love them too. I know I do. We just don't write gay male romance about them 'cause.... they're not male. Thus gay-male-ness is kind of unlikely unless they turn out to be trans.

(Which has never stopped me from writing gen, het or gay female romance about them, but that's a whole 'nother post.)