If I wanted to be as uncharitable as you are being right now, I'd point out that a lot of people who say "female politicians shouldn't be praised uncritically" also do praise male politicians uncritically, or at least do not come down nearly as hard on them as their male counterparts, and a lot of their "criticism" just boils down to wanting to call HRC or AOC unfuckable c*nts without backlash.

If I wanted to be as uncharitable as you, I'd assume that that's who you're talking about when you imply that what I'm really upset about is people "not praising female politicians uncritically."

I'm going to be the bigger person, though, and answer this question on the assumption that you really are talking about completely reasonable people who don't have a sexist bone in their body, but are simply pointing out that female politicians are imperfect.

The most recent post I made kvetching about this was spurred by a thread of people, started by someone with "radical leftist" in bio, earnestly arguing that no one benefits from misogyny, and that misandry is actually just as systemic.

Most people don't come out and say it outright like they did, but I see this sentiment all the time. From demanding women qualify their posts about men and male privilege with every known intersecting identity that can change dynamics (and only demanding this of women; I rarely to never see this happen with queerness, religion, etc). To completely erasing the role of misogyny in abortion restrictions. To centering the conversation on a white woman who got abused and murdered by her boyfriend not on how our system allowed that to happen, but on how privileged she is (was) because true crime armchair detectives and fake psychics used her tragedy for tiktok clout.

(And don't take this the wrong way, we should absolutely talk about how missing woc are rarely given the same media attention, but you can make that point without acting like Gabby Petito had it easy because her body got found after she died, and you can make that point and also talk about, you know, the fact that cops were called to prevent her death and instead were joking around with her BF while she was sobbing.)

That's the kind of thing I'm talking about when I talk about people acting like misogyny isn't real or doesn't matter. Not people making good-faith criticism of public figures who happen to be women, who also make good-faith criticism of public figures who happen to be men.

Not a dumb question at all!!! F/O stands for "fictional other." It's a term used in the self-shipping community to denote the characters one ships themselves with. So the page with my F/Os is a list of the characters I ship myself with.

Self-shipping is exactly what it sounds like, shipping yourself (or a self-insert version of yourself) with a fictional character, the way you would ship two (or more) fictional characters together.

Hope this helps, and let me know if you have any other questions!