Man, it sucks that with a show like RWBY that is focused around its female characters, people refuse to see the value of its female villains and their arcs.
Like seriously, the most love I see offered is for Neo and that's because she's quirky and "doesn't talk" which is just super cool to say about female characters on a female-centered show (please note, I'm not saying it's bad to relate to Neo for her muteness and everything she goes through, but I've literally heard "she's quiet" as a reason as why she's the best character... and yeah, that's call a sexism. You're doing a sexism.) I think Emerald also gets some love cos she was "Uwu so redeemable" but beyond that, I don't see her talked about a lot like the male villains get their flowers.
And don't even get me started on how people work their hardest to ignore the MAJOR ARCS Cinder, the primary female villain (besides Salem), goes through just because they want to have death fantasies about her because of Pyrrha. God forbid you engage with a villainous woman for two seconds to at least understand where she came from. Same with Salem.
People straight up that ignore Cinder is a deep character and not evil hot lady #27
