I agree, I've seen more of my fair share of female DILPs, like Mother Gothel from Tangled.
Apparently you can make N, or Grimsley, or Dawn (yes, THAT Dawn--I once saw a fic of her as a psycho murderer) a mustache-twirlingly evil bastard and everyone's okay with it, but the moment you try to argue that Voldemort might have been a victim in his childhood at one point rather than being an innately evil monster, well, you're just a stupid brainless fangirl who is obviously too besotted with Voldiecakes to understand how evil he is.
Dear god, no kidding. There's a HUGE difference between glorifying a villain and showing the gray areas. If it wasn't so, books like Grendel and Wicked wouldn't be as well-known as they are. RTDE is such a prevalent problem in fandom (Oh hello, Phandom and "Love Never Dies." *cough*) and even in original fiction, where characters are constantly depicted as OMG EBIL!!!!11!1 or selfish when in reality, they're more sympathetic than the leads. I can't think of a better example of how damaging both DILPs and RTDEs are than Cori Falls. Yes, it's annoying when she insists that two thieves are nothing but good and kind, but turning a ten-year-old boy into a dysfunctional manchild for not liking her favorite characters is horrific too. D:
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Date: 2013-08-09 04:53 am (UTC)Apparently you can make N, or Grimsley, or Dawn (yes, THAT Dawn--I once saw a fic of her as a psycho murderer) a mustache-twirlingly evil bastard and everyone's okay with it, but the moment you try to argue that Voldemort might have been a victim in his childhood at one point rather than being an innately evil monster, well, you're just a stupid brainless fangirl who is obviously too besotted with Voldiecakes to understand how evil he is.
Dear god, no kidding. There's a HUGE difference between glorifying a villain and showing the gray areas. If it wasn't so, books like Grendel and Wicked wouldn't be as well-known as they are. RTDE is such a prevalent problem in fandom (Oh hello, Phandom and "Love Never Dies." *cough*) and even in original fiction, where characters are constantly depicted as OMG EBIL!!!!11!1 or selfish when in reality, they're more sympathetic than the leads. I can't think of a better example of how damaging both DILPs and RTDEs are than Cori Falls. Yes, it's annoying when she insists that two thieves are nothing but good and kind, but turning a ten-year-old boy into a dysfunctional manchild for not liking her favorite characters is horrific too. D: