My ears are ringing from all the radfem dogwhistles in that post. Like, wow, all women want to do is write stories about women succeeding and living happy lives cocooned in soft femininity, right? And all men want to do is make women suffer and fail?
(I don't even mind the criticism that some people write "bad Magical Girl" stories, because I do agree on that part -- Magical Girl stories that aren't ultimately power fantasies, I think fail to meet the requirements of genre and thus fail as Magical Girl stories, becoming simply stories about girls with magic powers. But see how I can make that criticism without turning it into janky "men and women are Different and Write Different Stories and therefore Genres Are Walled Gardens" radfem shit?)
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(I don't even mind the criticism that some people write "bad Magical Girl" stories, because I do agree on that part -- Magical Girl stories that aren't ultimately power fantasies, I think fail to meet the requirements of genre and thus fail as Magical Girl stories, becoming simply stories about girls with magic powers. But see how I can make that criticism without turning it into janky "men and women are Different and Write Different Stories and therefore Genres Are Walled Gardens" radfem shit?)