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@adoralovely ah thanks. I've got 5 wonderful kids. I must be doing something right because they're all amazing. 😊
"If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting."
Bowie
@talonfighter ughh 😫 i felt this, sis ! it's happened to me before too (not on this site, don't worry. but i've gotten it occasionally in the comic shops i regularly visit)
and you know, that's actually a very good point you've made about most motu fangirls being more interested/invested in the characters and mythology rather than the toys themselves (and then there's ones like you and me who like both 😉😊) motu has always been pretty lore heavy from the beginning and i think that's a big part of the appeal/attraction that it has to women, it's in the worldbuilding and characters. i mean come on, what girl doesn't love castles, princes/princesses and cute talking things ! 💗
besides the worlbuilding, i've always found i gravitated so much to things like family drama, relationships strain, strong (and fully developed) female characters in stories, as well as healthy/soft masculinity and motu/pop have these things in SPADES
Yes with us it's the world and the romance and the beauty and the fantastic creatures and characters. With the boys it's always about their toys which I like a little too. They love the fights also.
As a boy in the early 80s MOTU was definitely something girls were into as far as our class in primary school went. I suppose there weren't as many female characters as in Thundercats and it could be seen as closer to the formula of Visionaries, etc, but Teela/Evil-Lyn/Sorceress/Marlena were key players and it was always annoying when popular characters didn't make it into toy lines (or series didn't really get made into toys at all, like MCoG) including the lack of female Horde members. Generally kids want what they see in the comics/episodes.