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going off of that last post, a lot of the fandom doesn’t treat female characters as like – multidimensional and complex.
I always see Amanda being illustrated as the “nagging wife who cheats on Michael”, Tanisha as the “bitter ex-girlfriend”, Tracey as the “ditzy blonde daughter”, etc.
There’s so much dialogue and backstory that people seem to conveniently forget about for the sake of ships and misconstrued characterization.
Like it’s okay to have flaws until you’re a woman in GTA, which then your flaws become your entire character for some reason.
I mean frankly, fandom in general–beyond just GTAV fandom– has this problem a lot of the time. And honestly a lot of it can be traced back to the fact that media in general tends to treat and dismiss woman characters as 2d caricatures, rather than multidimensional and fully realized human beings. It’s a fandom problem because its a media problem first. (Which isn’t to say that writers in fandom shouldn’t try to do better.)
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