r/Multifandom • u/AgitatedOne57 TAWOG, TADC, Cuphead, DW, 5SOS(BS), SPRUNKI, MLP, and NNSG • 6d ago

Question❓ Fandom you feel is like this?

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Nobody gets to make fun of my ms paint drawings shhh

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u/Ok_Drink8072 6d ago

Anyone here seen the Mindy Project? First season: woman MC with 3 woman coworkers and several close woman friends (Best Friend is a tier, not a person). By S3 most of the coworkers are men and the non-work friends are nonexistent. By S5 MC actively hates women. I am still bitter about how this show progressed from By Women For Women to The Network Wants Universal Appeal Even Tho Men Don’t Watch This Show And Never Will

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u/asuka_is_my_co-pilot 6d ago

That's just Mindy irl.

Her character is male obsessed on the office because it's an extreme version of reality. 

Even her books are just obsessed with men 

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u/Ok_Drink8072 6d ago

Obsessed with men ≠ hating women. Obviously the character and possibly the creator is obsessed with romantic comedies and romantic love is at the forefront. As it is in MANY sitcoms, like HIMYM or Friends or even Scrubs. But what happened with the Mindy Project was the complete erasure of woman characters and friendships and the MC’s personality as a good friend and cheerleader of women. 

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u/asuka_is_my_co-pilot 6d ago

You said hate, I dont really think so. 

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u/Ok_Drink8072 6d ago

There is literally an episode called Mindy Kaling is a Misogynist and it’s about how she hates other women and basically sees any female coworker as competition for male attention. 

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u/asuka_is_my_co-pilot 6d ago

Oh. I read your comment wrong, thought you said hate men. 

I agree but mindy is like that, that's why I dont watch her stuff. Always happens in her shows 

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u/LittleSkittles 5d ago

Yeah but again, that's just Mindy irl. That's what she's actually like, and once she got "famous enough" in her own mind, she didn't need to pretend to be "for the girls" anymore.

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u/GeileGrueneGurken 11h ago

Saw the entire show as a teenager, I remember finding it odd that the cast kept changing and most of the characters didn’t feel fleshed out at all, except of course Danny and Morgan. Morgan on his own was always comic relief but he was beloved by the shows small fanbase, also the Mindy-Morgan relationship was front and center as „quirky best friends moments”. The weird uncomfortable void after Danny became a recurring character - that shows how the show was scripted around him. [Spoiler?] My jaw dropped in the finale when she gets back with him, he was objectively very misogynistic (I don’t care about Italian-American Catholic being used as an excuse) and they just glossed over the „he wants her to be a mother instead of a doctor” bit. Also Danny’s mother’s breast cancer/ mastectomy arc evoked emotions in me, and this was a missed opportunity for heartfelt connection between an older and younger woman but NO, the lady’s cancer became a challenge for Mindy and Danny to navigate as an (ex) couple.

And how could I forget Ed Weeks’s sexyman doctor character. Remember when they introduced Anna only for her to be Mindy’s rival to project her insecurity onto?