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The opposite of that are misogynistic mean girls who are at best not interested in anyone with a vagina in their media and at worst are outright hostile to it. As has been noted elsewhere these girls see all other female protags as competition, and threatening to their guy on guy and/or OC jill material.
If there was ever any merit to shows like Gundam Wing, I could never tell because the fanbase turned me off with their constantly blithering about their pairings or shrieking about, "THAT WHORE RELENA."
Ironically, these are the first ones to complain about shitty female protagonists, and do the kind of shit BBAD does. Yet, whenever I've tried to introduce female centered anime, stories, any kind of media they just sniff at it, turn their noses up at it, and declare that the male characters more interesting/better written.
I don't know what to tell you if you didn't find Vanessa Ives whose existence is the reason Penny Dreadful's story exists, or Taraji Henson/Carter's arc from Person of Interest remotely engaging.
This is why female protagonists like Ellen Ripley don't seem to register a blip on their radar anymore, if they ever did.
Ironically it's dudes who keep referencing those mainstays and paying homages.
A lot of those types of women say they're feminists too. To them a "shitty female character" is just a female character that showed weakness once. I've heard this lodged against Casca and Riza Hawkeye(both pretty strong female characters in their own right). They think the fact that they got saved by a man that it means their character is shit even though they have about as much depth as their male counterparts. They'd probably say a Mary Sue like character is a strong female character even though she doesn't have as much depth as the "shitty female characters." Because to them kicking ass and never having any problems or showing any weaknesses = strong female character