Just know, I feel for you. I wish the creators of media cared for female characters; I wish they paid half as much attention to them as they do to some older white guy in a suits who's a fanboy of Captain America (yes, Coulson, I'm side-eying your sorry ass -- you're the *worst* about AoS and always have been, conceptually and this season also in execution).
There will always be people who simply slash any two white guys, and there will always be people who go the trite Main Girl Must Love Main Boy! route, but I believe if only we had more women AND more authorial love and attention for those women we would get better stories...and I have reason to believe so: Warehouse 13 was FULL of femslash and gen about the ladies; The 100 (yeah, yeah, tumblr hates the show right now, but it is and has always had women front and center) fanfic circles largely around Clarke, Octavia, and of course Clexa; Supergirl does have a lot of Alex Danvers fanfic and a lot of Kat Grant fanfic, not just Kara herself; and oh, oh, JESSICA JONES! <3
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There will always be people who simply slash any two white guys, and there will always be people who go the trite Main Girl Must Love Main Boy! route, but I believe if only we had more women AND more authorial love and attention for those women we would get better stories...and I have reason to believe so: Warehouse 13 was FULL of femslash and gen about the ladies; The 100 (yeah, yeah, tumblr hates the show right now, but it is and has always had women front and center) fanfic circles largely around Clarke, Octavia, and of course Clexa; Supergirl does have a lot of Alex Danvers fanfic and a lot of Kat Grant fanfic, not just Kara herself; and oh, oh, JESSICA JONES! <3