People Like Me Ruin Feminism

why mako’s behavior is unacceptable and should not be dismissed on the account of his gender

fallingivy:

 I was told that I just wasn’t looking at Mako ‘from the male perspective’. I find this advice interesting, because I previously had no idea you could make cheating, neglect, irresponsibility, and callousnes somehow sympathetic by looking at it from the ‘male perspective’. I am especially sure that the male perspective and the female perspective on cheating actually align perfectly, seeing that both genders seem to get really ticked off about it for exactly the same reasons. So, let’s look at the cold hard facts of what has happened in Asami and Mako’s relationship so far:

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cool-nebraska-gay replied to your post: As a POC, Korra really has been a major disappointment to me. When the show was first being pitched we were promised this flawless badass WOC who was going to be at least as competent as Aang and Korra just… Isn’t. She hasn’t really done much other than lose fights and mope about Mako (Who also could be shoved off a cliff and I would not care at all). Her character has been executed piss-poorly and I don’t think another season or two is going to help that much :\

LOLOL AS IF AANG NEVER MOPED ABOUT KATARA. -rolling.

Her moping about Mako seems pretty limited to episode four, and like, one sad look in episode seven anyway right? Mako mopes infinitely more about her.

Meanwhile Aang moped about Katara in the Season 2 finale, in the episode before the Day of the Black sun, in Ember Island Players…like a lot.

Not that I’m fond of moping either or how they’ve handled it, but it’s definitely not a big part of her character. Meanwhile Mako’s entire being at this point is “neglect my girlfriend, mope about Korra”.

I do agree I want WAY more focus on POSITIVE ladyfriend relationships in this show

I want Asami and Korra to get closer, I want to see a lot more of Korra and Lin. That’s all I want, screw everything else, especially romance.

Thart said, while I’m dissapointed certain characters aren’t really being used to their full potential or developed properly, the only characters I’ve actually soured on are Mako and Pema. Pema because she was like “yeah, go ahead and go for that girl’s boyfriend” and wow not cool, and she hasn’t made any sort of turnaround there. I don’t hate her or anything but I hate that the writers put her in that position. And it would sure be nice to see that she has friends and hobbies and stuff as well, but nope, the writers will just have her there to manufacture drama.

Everyone listing “the only characters I care about on this show anymore”

and they tyically include Lin and Asami and Tenzin which is great but don’t include Korra

I mean what exactly did she do wrong? She hasn’t really responded to Mako except for saying she’s glad he’s here, and she really hasn’t gotten a chance to talk to Asami on her own, so. 

idk it just make it uncomfortable everyone’s suddenly deciding “I don’t like the awesome lady main character” of this show just because Mako’s being awful. I still think she’s great.

And I care about Bolin even if they aren’t developing him. He has a lot of potential, it’s just being squandered.

Are people shipping Korra/Iroh yet?

wrench-wench:

timetravelingstoner:

wrench-wench:

Because that should be a thing.  Korra has a thing for firebenders, and when she meets Iroh, she’s instantly attracted to the only person (other than Lin) who has as much swag as she does.

omg look more shipping…

fucking why fandom.

Dude, it’s called a crack ship.

Why? Because the ship this show is going towards sucks right now.

I basically ship Korra with anyone Not Mako so Iroh is fine.

Korra/ being a single badass is also cool.

Korra reactionssss

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