#also people just really don’t like nuanced female characters who have complicated relationships to motherhood | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

logicalbookthief · 1 year

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If I had a nickel for every time a show I was watching featured a mother who was trying to better herself for the sake of her child, who she was reconnecting with after abandoning them with their father due to her own declining mental health and caregiver burnout, but rather than exploring these complex feelings toward motherhood, the show kills her off for shock value and to further develop the father(s)… I’d have two nickels.

Which isn’t a lot, but it’s disappointing it happened twice.

#buddy daddies #buddy daddies spoilers #misaki unasaka #miri unasaka #911 fox #shannon diaz #weird also that both shows have a buddie couple shipped by the fandom #and a lot of vitriol lobbed at the misaki/shannon feels like it stems from that #even though both characters have depth that goes way beyond their relationship with these men and they’re more focused on their kids #also people just really don’t like nuanced female characters who have complicated relationships to motherhood #until they die tragically and suddenly everyone forgives them. because they really just wanted them out of the story #can’t believe I’m saying this but.. at least rei todoroki got to heal and reconnect with her kids and won’t be killed off #yeah she’s misused by the writing in different ways but at least she gets to live #anyway this spawned mostly from my reaction to the newest buddy daddies ep #but it’s honestly more my dissatisfaction with this media trope in general

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