rephrasing bc i really need to beat the habit of making scathing sweeping statements... i guess what i want is more gender non-conforming woman characters who have more depth. susie from deltarune is a great gender-nonconforming character... when she opens up. when she overcomes her snap judgements and bristling outer shell. It's not perfect, but I do think its good. I don't necessarily like how she starts out, but that's the point. I think it's good. I think not enough masculine girl characters get this treatment without it being some kind of "makeover for the ugly girl" scenario sort of thing. But scary is... treated as the norm for masculine women... and it's not great...
I'm grateful for Susie so far, at least, because she's a teen and teens on the whole tend to be caustic, especially if they're outcasts... I just want more better stuff... Is it selfish to say so? Maybe. I just want less "mean buff european woman played as a joke" and more interesting roles typically withheld for men given to masculine women. And full offense, I don't mean the kinda-masc woman wearing full makeup but a flannel so you know she might do hard labor or the perfect hourglass figure skinny shorthaired kinda rude to men nerd girl or whatever. You know?...
IDK... I just feel like its more interesting to talk about this instead of some crappy "fuck you if you do this" post. So I typed more words. This isn't very concise, and also is heavily colored by my own opinions, but like. Yknow. I don't see a lot of normal butches. People either just make them self assured sex gods or mean freaks or secretly feminine or whatever. I think we're pretty normal and diverse actually.