One of the most common bits of misogyny I run across as an editor is robbing female characters of agency. Women not making their own decisions (or responsible for their own actions).
There's the typical "woman is raped," or "forced into marriage," or "treated as prize for male hero," but it's deeper than that, like making your female villains sympathetic by explaining they were forced to be bad by outside (male-coded) circumstance.
"She was a good girl lead astray by political radicals" or "she was a good girl mind-controlled by the magic artifact/demon/aliens."
Women can be sympathetic the same way men can be: by trying their best and making the wrong decision for the right reasons. I never see that.
And your female villains don't always need to be sympathetic. Sometimes women are monsters without being forced into it. God knows white women have always colluded w/ white supremacy.
No real conclusion to this, except to say review your own writing with an awareness for how you handle the women in your stories, and whether or not they're allowed to make their own choices. B/c if I have to deal with one more "good girl forced to be bad" narrative, I'll scream.
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