[TheFightingSpirit]

The simple fact is that men and women are more or less the same (barring some obvious biological and chemical differences).

Writers, readers and viewers have a tendency to get things confused and try to view female characters as something other than just another human being you know?

I'm wondering if the problem is that certain elements within the fandom are so used to this kind of mindset that they look for reasons to pick on the girls. Fact is they may be doing it for the totally altruistic reasons of wondering if the writers are treating their female characters with respect, but as they say, if you look for a fire you'll find one.

Now I don't doubt certain writers are still backwards with their sexism. Sadly, it still happens. But its just as bad in my opinion to try and fix it by "understanding the female mindset" when there isn't actually anything more to understand about them than men.

Bit of a common fallacy it seems.

The fix is for people to treat every character they write/read/watch as just another human being with a unique background which makes them uniquely them. There are feminine men, masculine women, masculine men, feminine women and for that matter none or all of the above. There is no right or wrong way, but I believe people need to take a step back sometimes and view a character by their motivations, not their gender or sex.