Quote Originally Posted by AngryHobbit View Post
Making female characters likable to majority is hard, especially since there is lot of hypocrisy with what's acceptable and what's not for male and female characters.

For example:
Breaking Bad - Compare Skyler and Walt. Everyone hates Skyler, although Walt is a drug dealer, psychopath and control freak who poisoned (at least it's heavily implied) a child to manipulate his partner into helping his rival. Whatever flaws Skyler has, Walt is that up to eleven. And everyone likes him!
People like villains all the time. Skyler was bossy.