I'm sorry, you see "introduce a female consciousness" and automatically assume "love interest"? What kind of world do we live in that a female presence is necessarily a love interest?
Are women nothing but their sex organs? Come on! Is it really so revolutionary and shocking an idea, that a woman might just do her thing and be herself without getting all When Harry Met Sally the nearest available male?? For that matter, what if the introduced character were a sister, as Hossgal (among others) has suggested? Please tell me you don't really think the only oportunity for female presense is as someone to stare longingly after the "main characters."
(And for cri-yi, in the absence of women, fandom is perfectly happy to pair two men, and for that matter, large segments of fandom are perfectly happy breaking incest taboos while doing it. While I agree that forced romance is irritating, good luck legislating it out!)
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Are women nothing but their sex organs? Come on! Is it really so revolutionary and shocking an idea, that a woman might just do her thing and be herself without getting all When Harry Met Sally the nearest available male?? For that matter, what if the introduced character were a sister, as Hossgal (among others) has suggested? Please tell me you don't really think the only oportunity for female presense is as someone to stare longingly after the "main characters."
(And for cri-yi, in the absence of women, fandom is perfectly happy to pair two men, and for that matter, large segments of fandom are perfectly happy breaking incest taboos while doing it. While I agree that forced romance is irritating, good luck legislating it out!)