User blog:IronRaphRa/Misogyny in the Loud House Fandom

This is something I've been wondering about for a while, but I feel like the Loud House has one of the most misogynistic fanbases out there.

One strong piece of evidence is how the sisters tend to be treated: mainly by how they are judged on how they treat Lincoln. Mainly for the "meanest sisters" (Lori, Lola, and Lynn.) It seems like people get their personalities from Get the Message, Sound of Silence, and "that" episode. Even getting to the point that they're seen as irredeemable monsters. Even some of the nicer sisters can be seen as bad for showing a mean moment to Lincoln.

And that brings me to my next part: the way fans treat Lincoln vs. the way fans treat a sister. As Lincoln himself said, they're not angels. And yes, one character can do a jerkish thing once in a while. Yet Lincoln seems to get off easy compared to his sisters. People barely bat an eyelash to Lincoln smashing Lori's golf clubs, but Lynn smashing Lincoln's diorama gets treated like some sort of moral event horizon. Not to mention the outrage when Luna and Luan threaten Lincoln, but nobody seems to care about Lincoln aggressively stealing a scarf from Lana, dropping a watermelon on Luan's foot, or cracking a whip at his sisters. It also seems nobody cares when a sister is mean to another sister: like Lana slapping Lori with Lori threatening to get her back, or Lisa causing Lola to go bald, or one of Lucy's bats biting Lynn. Then you get episodes like Making the Case: where the sisters are rightfully mad at Lincoln for making a video that embarrasses them. There are dozens of people who say they overreacted and even think that they're wrong for even getting mad at them. Yet when a Loud sister find herself at the end of a ten-against-one scenario; people will say that the others are right for ganging up on said sister (the only exception I've seen is Back in Black, but that's only because Lucy doesn't do anything wrong.)

Then there's the fan responses. One of the biggest ones is how people want to see the Loud sisters punished. What they basically want is to see the sisters suffer for their own amusement. Adding to that are the fanfics that feel like the author's revenge fantasies; at least one Loud sister ends up the victim of it. Sometimes, the sisters even get beat up by Lincoln and said beating is justified.

I want to finish by saying that this is not an excuse to bash Lincoln. I feel like there's a lot more disrespect for the female characters than there is for the male ones.