Easiest way (for writers) to make their women characters well liked is to give them the most important plot points and serious world-building. Make your male characters your plot device! If you have to do some kind of stupid conflict for sake of conflict, give to the men. Have the women solve the problem. Let the men get kidnapped!! (Shippers going to ship and boymoms going to boymom but you can always give them absurdly meaningless bait and see just how low they’ll go.)

yeah i don't really buy that. and the reason i don't buy that is that i've actually consumed a lot of books/shows/movies/etc. where the female characters do get the most important plot points and serious world building and all that, and a lot of those characters still end up getting so much hatred and hostility from the fandom. in fact, these characters are often hated precisely because they're…