User blog comment:Bluebutterflychan/Opinion Article: No such thing as "Mary Sue"/@comment-3991308-20161202040225

Asdfghjkl; thank you for reminding me that we still need to remove the Mary Sue commentary in the "How To Create Your OC" page. The tutorials were made way back in 2013 when the word Mary Sue still counted as a valid critique of OCs, and the work of young girls just getting into fandom was mocked (much more than nowadays).

Honestly, now in 2016, I really don't like the term because of its misogynist undertones of how its usually used. And I don't think there's anything wrong with writing an OC as a "power fantasy" of yourself – sometimes that's how we grow, sometimes it's just fun. It does get a little frustrating when you're RPing with somebody's power fantasy OC, but that's a different matter.