One Reason The "women Don't Watch Rick And Morty!!" Narrative Frustrates Me Is That People Say It Like

One reason the "women don't watch Rick and Morty!!" narrative frustrates me is that people say it like it's proof that the show is sexist--and yeah, the dudebro fans are awful and "Raising Gazorpazorp" is hot garbage, but the show famously hired more female writers starting in season three, added more female characters and gave existing ones bigger roles, and has plenty of one-off female characters voiced by actual women, not men doing silly voices.

It's also not true that we don't watch the show. A 2018 study showed that women make up 40% of Rick and Morty Hulu's viewership. It's an old study, but women are still a huge part of the online community, and I saw just as many women at the Rickmobile as I did men, so we're not exactly fleeing in droves.

But ultimately, I think that a lot of the people who say women don't watch Rick and Morty don't know about "Raising Gazorpazorp." They just can't believe that women would watch an animated sci-fi comedy with dark humor. That's for BOYS! We can't handle anything more graphic than Bluey because it might upset our delicate, tea-drinking sensibilities.

I don't think Unity and Rick ever loved each other, I think they loved the idea of each other, Rick loved the idea of an escape, a hive mind that could do anything for him, they could give him all the drugs he could want, meanwhile Unity never loved Rick, they loved the idea of him, the idea of a single mind that saw the bigger picture, and to add on with that, while I disagree that Rick did nothing wrong in air force wong, I think he gets too much blame, Unity is partially to blame too, they ghosted Rick, then got mad when Rick ghosted them, and Rick was completely in the right to not answer Unity's calls, if someone broke up with you, you probably wouldn't answer their calls, and Unity hijacking a state to reach Rick was too big of a jump, Rick wasn't completely in the right in that episode, he was an asshole, but his reaction makes sense when you consider what Unity's break up did to him. It bothers me how they pin all the blame on Rick and act like Unity is a sweet little angel that did nothing wrong.

Overanaylzing what was just meant to be a cute hug in Unmortricken bitchesssssssss

TW SUICIDE MENTION UNDER THE CUT

Thinking about Morty's reaction as soon as Rick Prime was dead. (To make it easier on me, Rick C-137 will just be referred to as Rick and Rick Prime will be referred to as Rick Prime. Same with Evil Morty and Morty Prime. Cool? Cool.)

He runs to Rick, about to hug him (But stops due to the insane amounts of blood, which, fair) and tries to confirm that Rick Prime is dead, when confirmed, look at the very first thing he says to Rick after it was confirmed

He asks Rick if he's ok. Now, this may not seem like a big deal, I mean both of them went through a LOT. But...let's take into consideration what Evil Morty said earlier in the episode

Evil Morty: What if Rick actually kills this guy (Rick Prime) ever think about that? Maybe he'll kill himself next.

Morty: You're an asshole!

Now, at first it seemed like Evil Morty's words had very little effect on Morty, just Morty getting mad and calling him an asshole, which is what most people would've done.

And Morty already knows about Rick's suicidal tenedices due to Solaricks

Morty: Rick, this is an obvious trap! If you go down there he's (Rick Prime) just gonna kill you!

Rick: Good!

He even goes as far as to call Rick a suicide bomber a little later in Solaricks

Rick: You're like a suicide bomber!

Morty: Takes one to know one!

But here we see it had a bigger effect then it seemed. I mean c'mon, we literally see Morty's lips trembling before Rick gives his response, he's fucking terrified. Then when Rick said that he's ok (Rick you liar), Morty is so overwhelming relived, that the blood currently covering Rick (The reason why Morty didn't hug Rick immidately afterwards) doesn't even matter. Morty hugs Rick.

He doesn't care about the blood.

He's just so overwhelming relived and glad that his grandpa is ok. I think too hard about this show fuckkkkkk

i feel like if you gave me a powerpoint and 30 minutes with google i could prove that rickford is more plausible than stanchez

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this is not stanchez h8 btw <3 love u guys, love those guys

I did it.

RAINBOW RICK PFPS ARE HERE!!!

More shades !!

Becca pointed out to me that in an early episode of Gravity Falls, The Legend of the Gobblewonker, Stan has a licence plate with “Stanley Mobile” on it. (“STNLYMBL”)

Which is rather strange, considering Stan’s full name is Stanford.

I’ve seen theories, or perhaps just headcanons, floating around that Stan is a twin. Stan must have (or must have had) a sibling who is Dipper and Mabel’s grandmother or grandfather. Twins often run in the family, and “Stanley” and “Stanford” sounds like a cute pair of names for twin boys.

I don’t know if those idea are substantiated or not. I don’t know if the family will ever be touched on or if they’re significant at all, but it seems like a pretty weird error to make for the animator to confuse “Stanley” with “Stanford”