The Walking Dead: Men writing (badly) about women

[chilling19]

Been a massive fan, but went off it over the last two seasons. But persevered, and this season looked like it would recover. But this episode? All about how a mum protects her daughter when the outbreak occurs and she is ruthless in doing so, because her husband doesn't get it. The whole episode is focused on two of the permanent male cast members of the 'good group' feeling sorry for her daughter who has been captured after they lost two members in a fight with the mum's group. The not very subtle subtext is that the mum, who saw the writing on the wall and acted accordingly and thought ' fuck this, I am getting my daughter out of here and keeping her alive no matter what', is implicitly demonised throughout the episode. AIBU to be fed up to the back teeth of having watch TV episodes written by men who have no idea what women are capable of?

Imo the mother was demonized because she is an abusive murderer of innocent people. I don't see what her sex has anything to do with that nor the sex of the writers. Women are capable of abusive behaviour too and if anything it's interesting to have a female lead villain as most have been male so far. I agree the last couple of seasons were a bit slow though!

Huh? She’s just an evil murderer, why on earth does her sex matter?

Must everything have a feminist agenda, dear god

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What bababoom said ^

And if you read the comics you will know much more about her character and realise what its about..m
Or just watch the series and don't make hasty judgements 🤷

But Alpha lied to Lydia her whole childhood, making out the dad was abusive when it was her all along (her memories of what she was told by Alpha conflicted with her real memories.) It was always her dad that sang to her, comforted her and reassured her, the mum was a cold blooded murderer.

Um I have news for you, that episode was written by Channing Powell
Channings real name is Elizabeth Channing Powell

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_(The_Walking_Dead)

Well, this isn’t awkward at all.

Awkward!

Please tell me what's awkward? Post deleted. Dying to know.

The awkward bit is that the episode was written by a woman, not a man. The writer's name obscured her sex, as "Channing Powell" doesn't immediate come across as a female name. That's all in @Drawward's post, not in the deleted post.