I think that's less a trend with audience reactions and more a trend with how villainous characters are written. Female villains are less likely to be complete monsters and have sympathetic backstories, from what I've seen. Male villains are more likely to be written as complete monsters, but if they're attractive, they'll still get the leather pants treatment.
I'm generalizing like whoa of course.
Can I just say how much I don't approve of Tumblr's arbitrary 10MB limit on audio files? Especially since most of my best track are over 10MB?
edited 5th Aug '13 10:43:33 AM by PhysicalStamina
Do not spare the feelings of those who would not spare yours.So today I saw a reblog where a guy said he only types in lowercase because he hates capitalism.
For better or worse, I wound up reblogging it half-jokingly with a brief post ALL IN CAPS SAYING THAT I PROBABLY SHOULD DO SO BECAUSE I HATE COMMUNISM(!). Not that I actually plan on doing that, it just seemed too obvious.
Whether I regret this decision is yet to be seen.
The latter exist, but the former is a Vocal Minority that can be easily heard.
I'm interested in learning the psychology behind the "social justice blogger".
Basically, tumblr exists as a lot of websites do, with a lot of idiots with their own opinions. But Tumblr is predominantly liberal, so instead of the commonly hated people being all "booo gays" or something, they're more "why are you not vegan." and what not.
I mean, I follow a bunch of social rights things, it's not all bad and some is VERY informative.
Read my stories!The worst ones are operating mostly out of San Francisco, those kind of places. They give left wingers a bad name. They are near uniformly white college students for some reason. They never make war on anything relevant (like police brutality), because that takes moral courage. Only on verbs. Or the music industry. Or the color of band-aids.
edited 9th Aug '13 4:18:59 PM by johnnyfog
I'm a skeptical squirrelEh, some of the stuff they do has a good point, and a lot of it is the quiet erasure of minorities or things outside of the norm. It's the compilation of everything that can make it important.
Also everyone has a passion. Usually it's something that relates to them specifically. For instance, my area of focus is sexism, but another person might be more focused on race, or legal things. It doesn't make anyone bad or wrong, just means they study different areas.
edited 9th Aug '13 4:41:03 PM by MrAHR
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Wow, it's like the worlds worst train wreck. Those people are all such terrible idiots, and yet I can't. Stop. Reading.
The fact that so many people like that exist and that so many of them are considered to actually be sane and reasonable people is very much part of the reason why I have so little hope and faith in the future of humanity.
But it's interesting how both extremes are Not So Different in terms of closemindedness.
I dunno, some of the stuff they make fun of on that tumblr has a point, and really shouldn't be toted as extreme idiocy.
Read my stories!Yeah. Often quite a lot of it, actually. Not that there aren't some... real gems of idiocy there, too.
At least they care. It's the rampant, obstructive obnoxiousness of certain other internet places I'll not name that terrify me. That's as specific as I want to be.
Moved to State Of Bedlam.I can't tell who you're responding to.
EDIT: Okay, cool.
edited 13th Aug '13 1:12:34 PM by KarmaMeter
Moved to State Of Bedlam.I'm not sure it's really that simple.
Sure, maybe some of them genuinely act out of an ignorant sense of wanting to make things better, but I'm betting a lot of them are also doing it because they think it gives their own lives a sense of value and worth where otherwise, they're just normal, everyday individuals whose lives lack meaning or purpose.
Not that their caring is really worth anything if all they do with their caring is to sit around, get angry about life, and write angry, stupid, posts on assorted blogs.
And frankly, thoughtless "caring" where they don't actually put any thought into what they're caring about can be just as bad as "obstructive obnoxiousness", and leaves them just as open to manipulation by people who claim to know how they can make their 'caring' be worth something.
Trying to do something or argue for something simply because they "care" can lead to very dangerous and very problematic unintended consequences.
edited 13th Aug '13 10:24:49 PM by TheSpaceJawa

Not many female characters are given the kind of characterization that Loki is. I'd suggest Vriska Serket, but if you don't know what Homestuck is you probably won't understand. Also, she isn't played by Tom Hiddleston; I think part of the Loki fandom lately with also being a Tom Hiddleston fan. Think he had a fanbase before he was Loki.